Brand
Jiffy
Made by
Chelsea Milling Company
Kind
cake mix

Jiffy

Jiffy Golden Yellow Cake Mix

Single-layer-size yellow cake mix in the blue box.

Label check

Flagged ingredients2

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
Yellow 5Synthetic dyesYELLOW 5
Soybean oilSeed oilsSOYBEAN OIL

Ingredients as listed

SUGAR, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONOESTERS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN), WHEY, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM CASEINATE, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SALT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, ALUMINUM SULFATE, BAKING SODA, FLAX SEED MEAL, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CORN STARCH, YELLOW 5 LAKE, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, WHEAT STARCH.

Source: Chelsea Milling Company’s product page, copied as published. 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.