Cake, Cookie & Cupcake Mixes · barcode 00010749011687

Turtle Brownie Mix

Rabbit Creek Gourmet · Rabbit Creek Products, Inc.

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of cake, cookie & cupcake mixes show what's typical. See levels

FDA recalls

2016-10-12 · Class I · Terminated Bread, muffin, and brownie mixes may have been manufactured with flour contaminated with E. coli O121Rabbit Creek Products Inc.: Turtle Brownie Mix, packaged in a plastic bag which is placed in a cardboard box, net wt. 13.5oz, UPC 010749011687 FDA record F-2538-2016

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). 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 cake, cookie & cupcake mixes

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

Lead: typically 4.01 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
26% of a toddler's daily limit
7% of a adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 10.1 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.1 kg (13 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
8% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of a adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 1.96 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 1.02 ppb (FDA, 59 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5.2 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 24 kg (53 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
2% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of a adult's daily limit
Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Brownie: found in 3 of 3, average 6.7, highest 8.7 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Brownie: found in 3 of 3, average 21.3, highest 34 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Brownie: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Brownie: found in 2 of 3, average 2.27, highest 3.7 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Brownie: found in 7 of 19, average 1.37, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, average 1.88, highest 9 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)

SUGAR, UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), COCOA, ENGLISH TOFFEE ((SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR, GLUCOSE, MARGARINE (LIQUID AND PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SALT, WHEY SOLIDS, SOY LECITHIN, VEGETABLE MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM BENZOATE (A PRESERVATIVE), NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, LECITHIN, MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF ALMONDS, PECANS, CASHEWS, PEANUTS, MACADAMIAS)), PECANS AND NATURAL FLAVORING.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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