Food
Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe French Vanilla Frosting
Ingredients as read from a label scanned in October 2026. Formulas change: check the label on the product you have.
Why it scores this way
This frosting is mostly sugar and highly processed ingredients like glucose-fructose, modified palm oil, and polysorbate 60. Near the end of the list, tartrazine and sunset yellow FCF are two colors that must carry a warning in the EU saying they "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." Also near the end, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate is an emulsifier whose average intake exceeds the European safety limit in at least one population group, according to EFSA, and sodium acid pyrophosphate is a marker of ultra-processed food.
Ingredients
In label orderIs Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe French Vanilla Frosting safe?
We don't give a safety verdict. Here is what the EU, Canada and the US say.
Tartrazine
- EUWarning label
Permitted, warning label required
EUR-Lex – Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Article 24 and Annex V - USPermitted
Permitted; must be named on label
eCFR – 21 CFR 74.705 – FD&C Yellow No. 5, paragraph (d)(2) - CanadaPermitted
Permitted in listed foods, max 300 ppm
Health Canada – List of Permitted Food Colours (item T.1)
Sunset Yellow Fcf
- EUWarning label
Permitted, warning label required
EUR-Lex – Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Article 24 and Annex V - USPermitted
Permitted; FDA batch certification required
eCFR – 21 CFR 74.706 – FD&C Yellow No. 6 - CanadaPermitted
Permitted in listed foods, max 300 ppm
Health Canada – List of Permitted Food Colours (item S.6)
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