Smart Delights Strawberry Shortcake

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Smart Delights Strawberry Shortcake'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: Icing (Neufchatel Cheese [Milk And Cream, Cheese Culture, Salt, Stabilizers (Carob Bean, Guar, And/Or Xanthan Gum)], Ricotta Cheese [Milk, Whey, Cream, Vinegar, Carrageenan], Powdered Sugar, Water, Cream Cheese Blend [Cream Cheese (Cultured Milk, Cream, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Enzymes), Cultured Buttermilk, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Disodium Phosphate, Salt, Natural Flavor, Propyl Gallate, Citric Acid], Natural And Artificial Flavor, Emulsifier [Mono & Diglycerides, Nonfat Milk, Modified Cornstarch], Sucralose Concentrate [Water, Sucralose, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate], Titanium Dioxide, Guar Gum).

Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.

Sugars & Natural SweetenersProcessing indicator

In this product: Strawberry Topping (Strawberries, Water, Fructose, Modified Tapioca Starch, Flavor [Sugar Syrup, Natural Flavor, Sodium Benzoate], Guar Gum, Salt, Color [Red 40, Blue 1]).

Natural sugars acceptable in moderation, excessive amounts indicate UPF.

Synthetic VitaminsProcessing indicator

In this product: Cake (Water, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Whole Eggs, Fructose, Sugar, Emulsifier Blend [Nonfat Milk, Polyglycerol Esters, Modified Cornstarch, Guar Gum], Maltodextrin [Potato], Margarine [Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Mono & Digylcerides, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate, Artificial Flavor, Beta-Carotene (Color), Vitamin A Palmitate], Baking Powder [Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate], Emulsifier [Mono And Diglycerides, Bht, Citric Acid], Salt, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Glucono-Delta-Lactone, Sodium Bicarbonate, Guar Gum).

Fortification often compensates for processing losses.