Salted Caramel Chips by Tops, Holiday Candy Corp Inc. · GreenveilSaving recent analysis
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VerdictConsider avoidingSalted Caramel Chips
Ingredients0Coverage0/0 resolvedDriversNo priority drivers flagged
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Decision lens
Focused on food use. Bias toward food-use coverage and published ingestible context.
Food health
Nutrition profile and additives of concern
Food healthCritical⚠Contains additive of concern- TartrazineSouthampton study link to hyperactivity/attention effects in children; can trigger reactions in sensitive individuals.
- Allura red ACSouthampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
- Indigotine / indigo carmineSynthetic dye; allergic-type reactions reported.
Why this band?How the nutrition, processing, and additive signals combine into the overall food-health band.
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Food healthCritical
- 1nutrition base band "critical" from nutri-score
- 2ultra-processed (NOVA 4) worsens band by one
- 3final band "critical" (health-blend-v1)
Flagged additives
- Tartrazine — Southampton study link to hyperactivity/attention effects in children; can trigger reactions in sensitive individuals.
- Allura red AC — Southampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
- Indigotine / indigo carmine — Synthetic dye; allergic-type reactions reported.
Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
Ingredients (13)
- SUGAR54.166666666666664%—›
- PALM KERNEL OIL22.916666666666668%—›
- LACTOSE11.458333333333336%—›
- WHOLE MILK POWDER5.729166666666671%—›
- REDUCED MINERAL WHEY POWDER2.8645833333333357%—
- NONFAT MILK POWDER1.4322916666666714%—
- ARTIFICIAL COLORS0.7161458333333357%—
- FD&C YELLOW #5 LAKE0.35807291666666785%—
- RED #400.17903645833333393%⚠ high
- BLUE #2 LAKE0.17903645833333393%⚠ moderate
- SOYA LECITHIN0.3580729166666714%—›
- EMULSIFIER0.3580729166666714%—
- NATURAL FLAVOR0.1790364583333357%—
- SALT0.0895182291666714%—›
- VANILLIN0.0447591145833357%—›
- AR0.04475911458334281%—›
- Tartrazine (E102)⚠ high
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SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, LACTOSE, WHOLE MILK POWDER, REDUCED MINERAL WHEY POWDER, NONFAT MILK POWDER, ARTIFICIAL COLORS (FD&C YELLOW #5 LAKE, RED #40 AND BLUE #2 LAKE), SOYA LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT AND VANILLIN(AR
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