Cape Cod Sweet Mesquite Barbeque

Name: Cape Cod Sweet Mesquite Barbeque
Brand: Cape Cod

Kettle chips with a sweet barbecue seasoning built on sugar, molasses, paprika and smoke flavour.

Label check

Flagged ingredients4

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsCanola oil, Soybean oil, Sunflower oil, Safflower oil
PreservativesNone listed

Fails 1 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Canola oil	Seed oils	VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA, SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER, AND/OR SOYBEAN)
Soybean oil	Seed oils	VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA, SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER, AND/OR SOYBEAN)
Sunflower oil	Seed oils	VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA, SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER, AND/OR SOYBEAN)
Safflower oil	Seed oils	VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA, SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER, AND/OR SOYBEAN)

Ingredients as listed

POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA, SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER, AND/OR SOYBEAN), SUGAR, SALT, TOMATO POWDER, PAPRIKA, SPICES (CONTAINS CELERY), MOLASSES, ONION POWDER, TORULA YEAST, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR (INCLUDING SMOKE), CITRIC ACID, VINEGAR.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2725702). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

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Cape Cod Sweet Mesquite Barbeque

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What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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