Does Easter Basket Cakes contain artificial dyes?

Yes, Easter Basket Cakes contains 4 artificial dyes: Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 2, Blue 1.

Is Easter Basket Cakes safe for kids with dye sensitivity?

Easter Basket Cakes contains artificial dyes (Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 2, Blue 1) which have been linked to hyperactivity in some children. Consider dye-free alternatives.

Easter Basket Cakes

Name: Easter Basket Cakes
Brand: Little Debbie

by Little Debbie

Barcode: 0024300041655

CONTAINS 4 ARTIFICIAL DYES

This product contains artificial food coloring.

Yellow 5Red 40Blue 2Blue 1

Detected Dyes

Yellow 5 (Tartrazine, E102)

Red 40 (Allura Red AC, E129)

Blue 2 (Indigo Carmine, E132)

Blue 1 (Brilliant Blue FCF, E133)

Ingredients

Sugar, corn syrup, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), water, palm and palm kernel oil, palm and soybean oils with tbhq and citric acid to protect flavor, dextrose, soybean oil. contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, toppers (sugar, corn starch, palm and palm kernel oil, dextrin, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, confectioner's glaze, salt, carnauba wax, yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake, blue 2 lake), egg whites, whey (milk), leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), salt, soy lecithin, mono - and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, corn starch, sorbic acid (to preserve freshness), polysorbate 60, artificial colors, natural and artificial flavors, polysorbate 80, potato starch, whey protein concentrate.