Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix

Name: Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix
Brand: Duncan Hines

Dark chocolate boxed cake mix from the Perfectly Moist line.

Label check

Flagged ingredients1

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsCanola 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	CANOLA OIL

Ingredients as listed

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Cocoa Powder (Processed with Alkali), Dextrose, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Less than 2% of: Canola Oil, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Propylene Glycol Mono- and Diesters, Modified Corn Starch, Fractionated Palm Oil, Mono- and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Ascorbic Acid, Natural Flavor, Artificial Flavor, Wheat Starch. Contains: Wheat

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2737908). 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 passes all five checks.

Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix

Label check

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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