Brand
Bugles
Made by
General Mills
Aisle
Chips and salty snacks
Kind
corn snacks and puffs
Barcode
00016000283206

Bugles

Bugles Nacho Cheese

Cone-shaped corn snacks with a nacho cheese seasoning that includes cheddar, buttermilk and MSG.

Label check

Flagged ingredients4

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
Red 40Synthetic dyesRED 40
Yellow 5Synthetic dyesYELLOW 5
Yellow 6Synthetic dyesYELLOW 6
BHTPreservativesBHT

Ingredients as listed

Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Coconut Oil and/or Palm Kernel Oil, Sugar, Maltodextrin. Contains 2 % or less of: Salt, Monoglycerides, Baking Soda, Dried Buttermilk, Monosodium Glutamate, Dried Whey, Reduced Lactose Whey, Dried Onion, Tomato Powder, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Dried Garlic, Citric Acid, Dried Cheddar Cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), Spice, Paprika Extract, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Dried Enzyme Modified Cheddar Cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), Disodium Phosphate, Artificial Color (red 40 lake, yellow 6, yellow 5). Freshness preserved by BHT.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2735254). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

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