Baking Decorations & Dessert Toppings · barcode 00000003483309
Special Dark Topping, Special Dark
Hershey's · The Hershey Company
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA has no comparable food in its tests.
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-08-31). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for baking decorations & dessert toppings
FDA's Total Diet Study has no food close enough to this one to give a fair typical level.
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)
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP; CORN SYRUP; SWEETENED CONDENSED SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK AND SUGAR); WATER; PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL; COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI; CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT; DISODIUM PHOSPHATE; SODIUM CITRATE; MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES; POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE); VANILLIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR; POLYSORBATE 60; XANTHAN GUM.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.