Spoon Scout

Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00888670111581

Cinnamon Mini Rolls, Cinnamon

Wellsley Farms · BJ's Wholesale Club / Corporate Brands

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-07-13). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Titanium dioxide (E171)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
  • EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
  • Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source

DATEM (E472e)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA lists it as generally recognized as safe. Source
  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472e. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
  • Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source

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.

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)

WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VANILLA WRAP ICING (SUGAR, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAIN 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: AGAR, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], ARTIFICIAL COLOR [E171], CITRIC ACID, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, LOCUST BEAN GUM), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, PALM FRACTIONS, WATER, SALT, EMULSIFIERS [SOYA LECITHIN, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES], NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, ANTIOXIDANT [MIXED TOCOPHEROL {SOY-DERIVED}] VITAMIN A AND COLORING [BETA- CAROTENE]), BROWN SUGAR (SUGAR, CANE SYRUPS), SUGAR, DOUGH CONDITIONER (DEXTROSE, SALT, WHEAT FLOUR, MONOGLYCERIDE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: DIACETYL TARTARIC ACID ESTERS OF MONO DIGLYCERIDES [DATEM], AMMONIUM CHLORIDE, POWDERED WHOLE EGGS, LECITHIN, ENZYMES, ASCORBIC ACID, ANNATTO, AND TURMERIC), CORN SYRUP, YEAST, PALM OIL, CINNAMON, WHOLE EGGS, ENZYME BLEND (WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, ENZYMES), SUGARCANE MOLASSES, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-07-13. Labels change; check the package.

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