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Whitman's Candies Inc.0076740075288

Coconut Chocolates

Greenveil's read: consider avoiding. Food health critical · 2 additives of concern (worst: Sodium metabisulphite).

Food health
Critical
Chemical concern
Not assessed

Allergens

  • Dairy
  • Soy

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 9 Mar 2017

Why it's rated this way

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

  1. Sodium metabisulphiteModerate concernSulphite; asthma/allergic-type reactions.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Sulphite; asthma/allergic-type reactions.
    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. SucraloseModerate concernSweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Sweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.
    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

  • Consist of milk chocolate57.1%No flag
  • Sugar29.8%No flag›
  • Whole milk13.7%No flag
  • Cocoa butter6.8%No flag›
  • Chocolate3.4%No flag›
  • Soya lecithin1.7%No flag›
  • An emulsifier1.7%No flag
  • Vanillin1.7%No flag›
  • Artificial flavouring1.7%No flag
  • Polydextrose · E120021.4%No flag
  • Coconut with sodium metabisulfite10.7%No flag
  • To promote color retention10.7%No flag
  • Sorbitol · E4205.4%No flag
  • Salt0.2%No flag›
  • Natural flavouring0.2%No flag
  • And sucralose5%No flag
  • Sodium metabisulphite (E223)Moderate

    Sulphite; asthma/allergic-type reactions.

  • Sucralose (E955)Moderate

    Sweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.

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Consist of milk chocolate {sugar, whole milk, cocoa butter, chocolate, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), vanillin (an artificial flavor)}, polydextrose, coconut with sodium metabisulfite (to promote color retention), sorbitol, salt, natural flavor, and sucralose.

Alerts

Declared allergens

This product declares Dairy, Soy.

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 9 Mar 2017

Food health

Nutrition profile and additives of concern

Contains additive of concern
  • Sodium metabisulphiteSulphite; asthma/allergic-type reactions.
  • SucraloseSweetener; emerging genotoxicity concern around the impurity/metabolite sucralose-6-acetate.

Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety

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