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Is Cheesecake made with normal ingredients?

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Enriched flour and too many additives make this a no-go.

This crust has enriched flour, which is not real flour. And what are all these gums and extracts? This is not how you make a dessert!
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What’s actually inside

All 16 ingredients, analyzed.

Scanned May 18, 2026·1 scans·FROZEN

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Is Cheesecake made with normal ingredients?
No. Cheesecake contains 6 industrial ingredients that wouldn't exist without a factory: enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), niacin, iron, and 3 more.
What ingredients are in Cheesecake?
Cheesecake by TRADER JOE'S contains 16 ingredients: cream cheese (cultured pasteurized milk and cream, salt, xanthan gum, carob bean gum, guar gum, sour cream (cultured cream, microbial enzyme)), sugar, whole eggs, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vanilla extract (water, alcohol, vanilla bean extractives), graham crumb (wheat flour, graham flour, sugar, palm oil, molasses, honey, salt, sodium bicarbonate), butter, palm fruit oil, water, alcohol, vanilla bean extractives, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid.
What should I buy instead of Cheesecake?
We found 3 FROZEN products made with real ingredients: STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY Organic by STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY, Straus Family Creamery Chocolate Ice Cream by STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY, GREEN TEA ICE CREAM by TRADER JOE'S. All of them passed Nonna's kitchen test.

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