Bar, Pumpkin Cheesecake

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Bar, Pumpkin Cheesecake's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

Stabilizers & GumsUPF marker

In this product: Pumpkin Pie Swirl (Pumpkin, Cream Cheese [Milk, Cream (Milk), Cheese Culture, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum]Light Brown Sugar, Eggs, Fructose, Food Starch - Modified, Salt, Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Cloves, Annatto Extract [For Color]).

Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.

Food Bases & AlkalisProcessing indicator

In this product: Pumpkin Bar Light Brown Sugar, Wheat Flour, Pumpkin, Salted Butter [Sweet Cream Whey , Salt, Water], Eggs, Soybean Oil, Crystalized Ginger [Ginger, Cane Sugar], Baking Soda, Bourbon Vanilla Extract [Water, Alcohol, Sugar, Vanilla Bean Extractives , Salt, Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Graham Crust (Graham Cracker Crumb [Wheat Flour, Graham Flour, Sugar, Palm And Palm Kernel Oil, Molasses, Honey, Salt, Sodium Bicarbonate], Salted Butter [Sweet Cream (Whey), Salt, Water], Sugar, Egg Whites).

Common in baking, excessive use indicates processing.

MineralsProcessing indicator

In this product: Cream Cheese Swirl (Cream Cheese [Milk, Cream (Milk), Cheese Culture, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum], Sour Cream [Cultured Nonfat Milk And Cream (Milk), Cornstarch, Whey Protein Concentrate, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Carob Bean Gum, Enzymes], Sugar, Egg Whites, Maltodextrin, Cultured Lowfat Buttermilk [Cultured Lowfat Milk, Salt, Natural Flavor], Wheat Flour, Sugared Egg Yolks [Egg Yolks, Sugar], Lactic Acid, Calcium Lactate, Salt).

Added minerals often compensate for processing.