Brand
Duncan Hines
Made by
Conagra Brands
Aisle
Baking mixes, frosting and sprinkles
Kind
cake mix
Barcode
00644209307593

Duncan Hines

Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist Butter Golden Cake Mix

Golden yellow boxed cake mix with a butter flavour, a common base for birthday cakes.

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
Red 40Synthetic dyesRED 40
Yellow 5Synthetic dyesYELLOW 5
Canola oilSeed oilsCANOLA OIL

Ingredients as listed

Sugar, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Less than 2% of: Wheat Starch, Canola Oil, Salt, Dextrose, Propylene Glycol Mono- and Diesters, Mono- and Diglycerides, Fractionated Palm Oil, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Ascorbic Acid, Natural Flavor, Yellow 5 Lake, Artificial Flavor, Red 40 Lake. Contains: Wheat

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2737909). 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.