Ketchup, Mustard, BBQ & Cheese Sauce · barcode 00000000514385
Trader Joe's, Carolina Gold Barbeque Sauce
Trader Joe's · Holiday Designs Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of ketchup, mustard, bbq & cheese sauce show what's typical. See levels
Typical for ketchup, mustard, bbq & cheese sauce
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead: typically 8.15 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 240 g (8.5 oz) a day; an adult at about 970 g (34 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):41% of a toddler's daily limit10% of a adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 15.9 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 970 g (34 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):10% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.75 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 5.83, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, barbecue: found in 25 of 27, average 10.4, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Ketchup, tomato: found in 3 of 3, average 20.7, highest 22 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 34.7, highest 38 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, barbecue: found in 27 of 27, average 12.8, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, barbecue: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, barbecue: found in 22 of 27, average 5.05, highest 9.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Tomato catsup: found in 3 of 20, average 0.22, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Yellow mustard: found in 10 of 19, average 0.88, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
CANE SUGAR, YELLOW MUSTARD (DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, MUSTARD SEED), DISTILLED VINEGAR, TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), SEA SALT, CORN STARCH, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE (DISTILLED VINEGAR, MOLASSES, SEA SALT, SUGAR, SPICES, TAMARIND), MOLASSES, SPICES, GARLIC, ONION, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.