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Crunchy peanut butter and toasted coconut candy, crunchy peanut butter and toasted coconut

Greenveil's read: consider avoiding. Food health critical · 2 additives of concern (worst: Allura red AC).

Food health
Critical
Chemical concern
Not assessed

Allergens

  • Peanut

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 23 Apr 2020

Why it's rated this way

2 additives on this label are on our additives-of-concern list.

  1. Allura red ACHigh concernSouthampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Southampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
    Regulatory basis
    Greenveil's curated additives-of-concern list, which cites the authority behind each entry.
    How sure we are
    High confidence. Matched by the additive code declared on the label.
  2. ErythrosineModerate concernIodine-based red dye; thyroid effects in animal studies; restricted uses.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Iodine-based red dye; thyroid effects in animal studies; restricted uses.
    Regulatory basis
    Greenveil's curated additives-of-concern list, which cites the authority behind each entry.
    How sure we are
    High confidence. Matched by the additive code declared on the label.

A food's rating also reflects nutrition (Nutri-Score) and processing (NOVA); the additives above are the ingredient-level part of it.

Ingredients

  • Cane sugar56.3%No flag›
  • Corn syrup21.9%No flag›
  • Peanut paste10.9%No flag
  • Contains peanuts5.5%No flag›
  • Salt0.2%No flag›
  • And preserved with vitamin e to maintain freshness5.3%No flag
  • Coconut5.5%No flag›
  • Natural turmeric color2.7%No flag
  • Natural red color1.4%No flag
  • Vegetable juice1.4%No flag›
  • Fd and c red #3 · E1270.7%Moderate

    Iodine-based red dye; thyroid effects in animal studies; restricted uses.

  • Red #40 · E1290.7%High

    Southampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.

Show original label text

Cane sugar, corn syrup, peanut butter (contains fresh ground dry roasted peanuts, salt, and preserved with vitamin e to maintain freshness), toasted coconut, natural turmeric color, natural red color (vegetable juice concentrate) or fd & c red #3, red #40

Alerts

Declared allergens

This product declares Peanut.

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 23 Apr 2020

Food health

Nutrition profile and additives of concern

Contains additive of concern
  • Allura red ACSouthampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
  • ErythrosineIodine-based red dye; thyroid effects in animal studies; restricted uses.

Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety

What drives this

2 low · 1 not assessed

1 of 3 ingredients not yet assessed · Show all

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