Is Hostess Hostess Twinkies Golden Sponge Cake safe?
Hostess Hostess Twinkies Golden Sponge Cake 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
Enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), corn syrup, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, water, vegetable and/or animal shortening (partially hydrogenated beef fat with BHA/BHT and citric acid), whole eggs, dextrose, cellulose gum, soy fiber, whey, leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), salt, cornstarch, corn flour, corn syrup solids, mono & diglycerides, soy lecithin, polysorbate 60, dextrin, calcium caseinate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, wheat gluten, calcium sulphate, natural & artificial flavors, caramel color, Yellow 5, Red 40.
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