Back Country Cuisine Freeze Dri Instant Pasta 120g
Back Country Foods Limited · Pasta · barcode 09421002420060
What stands out
Nothing stands out: no published lab test names this product, no FDA recall lists its barcode and no ingredient on file is banned anywhere we track. Not tested is not the same as clean.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of pasta show what's typical. See levels
Typical for pasta
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 24.3 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 640 g (23 oz) a day; an adult at about 3 kg (6.6 lb).One serving (186 g, from the label):29% of a toddler's daily limit6% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 2 of 3, average 3.63, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3, average 22.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 6.73, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 37.7, highest 44 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3, average 27.7, highest 32 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 16.7, highest 22 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 20, average 0.45, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 20, all below 1 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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)
Durum Wheat
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.