Declared allergens
This product declares Gluten.
Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 9 Mar 2017
Frosted Shredded Wheat Cereal, Lightly Sweetened Whole Grain Wheat Cereal
Greenveil's read: consider avoiding. Food health high · 1 additive of concern (Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)).
- High
Allergens
- Gluten
Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 9 Mar 2017
Why it's rated this way
1 additive on this label is on our additives-of-concern list.
Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)Moderate concernAntioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
- What it is
- Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
- Why it's flagged
- Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
- 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.
Ingredients
- Whole grain wheat53.6%No flag
- Sorbitol · E42010%No flag
- Gelatin · E42810%No flag
- Niacin · E3754.1%No flag
- Niacinamide · E3754.1%No flag
- Bht · E321<0.1%Moderate
Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
- To preserve freshness<0.1%No flag
Show original label text
Whole grain wheat, sugar, sorbitol, gelatin, reduced iron, niacin (niacinamide), zinc (zinc oxide), vitamin b6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), folate (folic acid), vitamin b12. bht (to preserve freshness).
Alerts
Food health
Nutrition profile and additives of concern
Contains additive of concern
- Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety
What drives this
- Reduced IronModerate concern
- Pyridoxine HydrochlorideModerate concern
- FolateModerate concern
3 of 8 ingredients not yet assessed · Show allHide
Alternatives
No lower-concern alternatives are available for this product yet.
Trust & sources
Where this product data comes from
How we assembled this record: source coverage, image cache state, review state, and the active product version.
Trust & sources
Where this product data comes from
How we assembled this record: source coverage, image cache state, review state, and the active product version.
Image cache
No product image yet
Pending enrichment
Ingredient content
Normalized label parsed
14 items
Your context
Recent scans
See allProducts you open appear here on this device.