Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00888109150020

Frosted Mini Donuts, Frosted

Hostess · Hostess Brands, LLC

FDA recalls

• 2014-10-15 · Class II · Terminated Products recalled due to potential for mold growth. Laboratory analysis for products manufactured demonstrated a higher-than-average moisture content.Hostess Brands LLC: Hostess Frosted Bagged Donettes- FROZEN ONLY, 11.25 oz. FDA record F-0011-2015
• 2014-10-15 · Class II · Terminated Products recalled due to potential for mold growth. Laboratory analysis for products manufactured demonstrated a higher-than-average moisture content.Hostess Brands LLC: Hostess Frosted Bagged Donettes, 11.25 oz FDA record F-0008-2015
• 2016-09-21 · Class II · Terminated Product is manufactured with flour known to contain peanut allergen and is not labeled to contain peanuts.Hostess Brands, LLC: Chocolate Frosted Mini Donuts, packaged in 6-20ct and 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 11.25oz, UPC 888109150020; packaged in 9ct bags of mini donuts as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 14.07oz, UPC 888109110239; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Dolly Madison Chocolate Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109300067; packaged in 6ct single serve packages as Hostess Donettes Frosted Mini Donuts, net wt. 3oz, UPC 888109050023; the most responsible firm name on the label is Hostess Brands, LLC, Kansas City, MO 64141 FDA record F-2118-2016

Typical for cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

• Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  26% of a toddler's daily limit

  7% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  7% of a toddler's daily limit

  2% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, average 1.88, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE OR REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, PALM OIL, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, GLYCERIN, NONFAT DRY MILK, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, BAKING SODA, EGG YOLK, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, PRESERVATIVE (SORBIC ACID, SODIUM PROPIONATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE, NATAMYCIN), WHEY, DEXTROSE, DEXTRIN, CITRIC ACID, ENZYMES, GUAR GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC (COLOR), KARAYA GUM.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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