Brand
Betty Crocker
Made by
General Mills
Aisle
Baking mixes, frosting and sprinkles
Kind
cake mix
Barcode
00016000207110

Betty Crocker

Betty Crocker Super Moist Yellow Cake Mix

Boxed yellow cake mix from the Favorites line; add eggs, oil and water for a layer cake or cupcakes.

Label check

Flagged ingredients3

Fails 2 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

IngredientCheckOn the label as
Yellow 5Synthetic dyesYELLOWS 5 & 6
Yellow 6Synthetic dyesYELLOWS 5 & 6
Corn syrupCorn syrupCORN SYRUP

Ingredients as listed

Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate). Contains 2% or less of: Modified Corn Starch, Corn Starch, Propylene Glycol Mono and Diesters, Salt, Monoglycerides, Palm Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Yellows 5 & 6.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2739335). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More cake mix first, then the rest of the baking mixes, frosting and sprinkles aisle. Each fails fewer than 2 of the checks; fewest flags first.