Pillsbury Frozen Baked Brownie Single Serve Cup Caramel 60/2.5 OZ

General Mills Sales Inc. · Sweet Bakery Products · barcode 10721582122696

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of sweet bakery products show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2025-08-21). 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.

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

Bleached flour

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
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

Typical for sweet bakery products

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

Cadmium: typically 11.4 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 6 kg (13 lb).
One serving (1 brownie, 70 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 2.28 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Breakfast tart/toaster pastry: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Cinnamon roll, iced: found in 18 of 27 samples, average 3.8, highest 9.2 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Doughnut, cake-type, plain: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.43, highest 4.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Muffin, blueberry: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.19, highest 5 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Breakfast tart/toaster pastry: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 12.8, highest 16 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Cinnamon roll, iced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 14.3, highest 18 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Doughnut, cake-type, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 10.6, highest 12 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Muffin, blueberry: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 8.81, highest 12 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Breakfast tart/toaster pastry: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Cinnamon roll, iced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Doughnut, cake-type, plain: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Muffin, blueberry: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Breakfast tart/toaster pastry: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cinnamon roll, iced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.32, highest 8.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Doughnut, cake-type, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.3, 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 Breakfast tart/toaster pastry: found in 17 of 20 samples, average 5.2, highest 49 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Doughnut, cake-type, any flavor: found in 14 of 19 samples, average 6.08, highest 28.7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Muffin, fruit or plain: found in 8 of 20 samples, average 1.47, highest 8 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)

SUGAR, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, CANOLA OIL, CORN SYRUP, EGGS, SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK (NONFAT MILK, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP), COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, WATER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), SALT, GELLAN GUM, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), NATURAL FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM, BAKING SODA, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2025-08-21. Labels change; check the package.

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