Is Cheesecake made with normal ingredients?
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!
What’s actually inside
All 16 ingredients, analyzed.
- cream cheese (cultured pasteurized milk and cream, salt, xanthan gum, carob bean gum, guar gum, sour cream (cultured cream, microbial enzyme))
Xanthan gum and carob bean gum are processed additives.
- enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
Enriched flour is processed and stripped of nutrients, then fortified with synthetic vitamins.
- graham crumb (wheat flour, graham flour, sugar, palm oil, molasses, honey, salt, sodium bicarbonate)
Palm oil is a processed seed oil.
- palm fruit oil
Palm oil is a processed seed oil.
- niacin
Added synthetic vitamin.
- iron
Added synthetic mineral.
- thiamine mononitrate
Added synthetic vitamin.
- riboflavin
Added synthetic vitamin.
- folic acid
Added synthetic vitamin.
Better options
What to buy instead.
Frozen products made with real ingredients.
STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY
STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY Organic
Simple, traditional ingredients for a delicious ice cream.
STRAUS FAMILY CREAMERY
Straus Family Creamery Chocolate Ice Cream
Simple, real ingredients for delicious ice cream.
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc.
Vanilla Ice Cream
Mostly real food, with a few modern touches.
TRADER JOE'S
GREEN TEA ICE CREAM
Mostly real ingredients, but some oddities.
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