Is Pillsbury Grands! Flaky Layers Biscuits made with normal ingredients?
Too many artificial ingredients, very industrial!
Ay yi yi! This has Red 40 Lake and artificial flavors, Nonna doesn't like these at all. Why so many ingredients for a simple treat?
What’s actually inside
All 30 ingredients, analyzed.
- Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
Enriched flour is industrially stripped then fortified.
- dextrin
Industrial additive.
- confectioner's glaze
Processed coating.
- red 40 lake
Artificial dye.
- blue 1 lake
Artificial dye.
- yellow 6 lake
Artificial dye.
- yellow 5 lake
Artificial dye.
- soy lecithin
Processing aid.
- natural and artificial flavor
Contains undisclosed artificial flavor.
- canola oil
Industrial seed oil.
- dextrose
Industrial sweetener.
- propylene glycol esters of fatty acids
Emulsifier, modern additive.
- cellulose
Thickener/stabilizer, modern additive.
- mono- and diglycerides
Emulsifier, modern additive.
- xanthan gum
Stabilizer, modern additive.
- cellulose gum
Thickener/stabilizer, modern additive.
- soy lecithin
Processing aid.
- maltodextrin
Industrial additive.
- sodium stearoyl lactylate
Emulsifier, modern additive.
- natural and artificial flavor
Contains undisclosed artificial flavor.
- BHT (antioxidants)
Industrial preservative.
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