Brand
Pillsbury
Made by
Hometown Food Company
Aisle
Baking mixes, frosting and sprinkles
Kind
cake mix

Pillsbury

Pillsbury Funfetti Premium Cake & Cupcake Mix

White cake mix with rainbow candy bits baked in, the standard birthday-party cake mix.

Label check

Flagged ingredients6

Fails 3 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
Yellow 6Synthetic dyesYELLOW 6
Blue 1Synthetic dyesBLUE 1
Canola oilSeed oilsCANOLA OIL
BHTPreservativesBHT

Ingredients as listed

Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Candy Bits (Sugar, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil [Palm and Palm Kernel], Soy Lecithin, Confectioner’s Glaze, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Blue 1 Lake, Carnauba Wax, Yellow 6 Lake), Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Contains 2% Or Less Of: Canola Oil, Dextrose, Salt, Cellulose, Corn Starch, Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids, Monoglycerides, Xanthan Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Cellulose Gum, Soy Lecithin, Whey, Sodium Caseinate, Palm Kernel Oil, Citric Acid and BHT (Antioxidants).

Source: Hometown Food 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 3 of the checks; fewest flags first.