Betty Crocker Muffin & Quick Bread Mix, Banana Nut, Banana Nut
Betty Crocker · Bread & Muffin Mixes · barcode 00916009456017
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of bread & muffin mixes show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2019-12-06). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- 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. Applies to all of them.
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E321. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for bread & muffin mixes
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 18.3 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 850 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 4 kg (8.8 lb).One serving (3 tbsp, 29 g, from the label):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.49 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 2.13 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).One serving (3 tbsp, 29 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.28, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cornbread, homemade: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 6.43, highest 14 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Muffin, blueberry: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.19, highest 5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 27.4, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 10, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Muffin, blueberry: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 8.81, highest 12 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.3, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Muffin, blueberry: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cornbread, homemade: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.23, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Muffin, blueberry: found in 12 of 27 samples, average 1.8, highest 5.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Bread, white, enriched: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.55, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cornbread, homemade: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 3.1, highest 12 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Muffin, fruit or plain: found in 8 of 20 samples, average 1.47, highest 8 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)
ENRICHED FLOUR BLEACHED (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, WALNUT PIECES, CORN SYRUP, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, CORN STARCH, TOASTED WHEAT GERM, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, COLOR ADDED, XANTHAN GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. FRESHNESS PRESERVED BY BHT.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-12-06. Labels change; check the package.