10/13 ingredients recognized
Duncan hines, pineapple supreme moist cake mix
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Flagged concerns
vegetable oil shortening
Generic refined seed-oil blend (often soybean/canola); high omega-6; heavily processed.
artificial flavors
Catch-all for synthetic flavor chemicals; regulatory threshold does not address cumulative exposure
dextrose
Isolated glucose from corn or wheat starch; high glycemic; rapid insulin spike
cellulose gum
Synthetic emulsifier; animal studies link it to microbiome disruption and inflammation.
Sugar
High glycemic index; promotes inflammation and metabolic disease.
Full ingredient list
Sugar, enriched bleached wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fats, mono - and diglycerides), leavening (sodium bicarbonate, dicalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), wheat starch. contains 2% or less of: salt, dextrose, pineapple juice powder (corn syrup solids, pineapple juice solids), natural and artificial flavors, cellulose gum, xanthan gum, citric acid, colored with (yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake).