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Is Hormel Mashed Potatoes safe?

No — Avoid

Hormel Mashed Potatoes is rated AVOID by BannedPantry's banned-ingredient scanner. It contains additives that are banned, restricted, or warning-labeled in the EU, UK, Canada, or Japan but legally sold in the US. See the full ingredient breakdown and safer swaps below.

Full ingredient label

Cooked potatoes (potatoes, water), milk with vitamin d3, butter (cream and salt), pasteurized process white cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of milk fat, salt), sour cream (cream, milk, nonfat dry milk, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, locust bean gum, culture), contains 2% or less of cream, bacon (cured with water, sugar, salt, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), cultured dextrose, sea salt, sodium diacetate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, spice, chives, potassium sorbate (preservative), nisin preparation (salt, nisin).

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