10/13 ingredients recognized
Duncan hines, holiday velvets moist cake mixes
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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
leavening contains or less of: 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 (palm oil), wheat starch, cocoa powder processed with alkali, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, dicalcium phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate). contains 2% or less of: dextrose, emulsifier (propylene esters, mono and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate), salt, xanthan gum, colored with (red 40), cellulose gum, artificial flavors, colored with (yellow 5, blue 1).