Chips, Pretzels & Snacks · barcode 00000000536769
Trader Joe's, Seasoned Kale Chips
Trader Joe's · Massachusetts Bay Clam Company
- 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 chips, pretzels & snacks show what's typical. See levels
Typical for chips, pretzels & snacks
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 46.3 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 270 g (9.5 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.2 kg (2.6 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):37% of a toddler's daily limit8% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Chips, potato: found in 1 of 3, average 2.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Chips, tortilla: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pretzels, hard, salted: found in 1 of 3, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Chips, potato: found in 3 of 3, average 130, highest 200 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Chips, tortilla: found in 3 of 3, average 2, highest 2.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pretzels, hard, salted: found in 3 of 3, average 36.3, highest 42 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Chips, potato: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Chips, tortilla: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pretzels, hard, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Chips, potato: found in 1 of 3, average 1.33, highest 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Chips, tortilla: found in 1 of 3, average 1.03, highest 3.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pretzels, hard, salted: found in 2 of 3, average 3.73, highest 6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Corn/tortilla chips: found in 1 of 20, average 0.1, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Potato chips: found in 11 of 20, average 2.23, highest 8 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pretzels, hard, salted: found in 8 of 19, average 1.62, highest 10 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)
KALE, CASHEWS, TAHINI (GROUND SESAME SEEDS), CARROT POWDER, ONION POWDER, CANE SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, MUSTARD POWDER, SALT GARLIC POWDER.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.