Brand
Hostess
Made by
The J.M. Smucker Company
Aisle
Cookies and snack cakes
Kind
snack cakes

Hostess

Hostess Ding Dongs

Round chocolate cakes with a creme centre and a chocolate coating.

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
High fructose corn syrupCorn syrupHIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
Corn syrup solidsCorn syrupCORN SYRUP SOLIDS
Corn syrupCorn syrupCORN SYRUP
Soybean oilSeed oilsSOYBEAN OIL

Ingredients as listed

Sugar, Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron Or Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Soybean Oil, Cocoa, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Glycerin, Food Starch Modified, Baking Soda, Mono And Diglycerides, Whey (From Milk), Salt, Corn Starch, Egg, Soy Lecithin, Preservatives (Sorbic Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Natamycin), Dextrose, Corn Syrup Solids, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Egg Whites, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Cellulose Gum, Polysorbate 60, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Defatted Soy Flour.

Source: The J.M. Smucker Company’s product page, copied as published. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More snack cakes first, then the rest of the cookies and snack cakes aisle. Each fails fewer than 2 of the checks; fewest flags first.