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Monoglycerides Caloum Stearate
Industrial fatty-acid emulsifier shown to disrupt gut mucus barrier and microbiome in mouse models. Ubiquitous in baked goods and chocolate.
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fruit and grain soft baked bar
Is Aldi fruit and grain soft baked bar low tox? Our scanner flagged 1 ingredient (1 in the caution tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
1 caution
1 ingredient flagged
What we flagged
Full ingredients (from label)
ngredients: cherry flavored filling (sugar water w,corn syrup, maltodextrin, cherry puree apple porr e powder, pectin, malic acio citric acid, xanthan du alginate, fruit and vegetable juice potassum sbea preservative dicalcium phosphate, sodium ctrat turmeric, monoglycerides caloum stearate, natural e whole gat flour, enriched bleached flour (w* flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate riboflavin, folic acid), canola dl, mhcle mheat flour invert sugar soluli corn fiber, mhcle rclled gats sugar, fructosh, wolasses, wiaming and minerals (vitamin a palmikt, caloum caricnate, nacinamice reduced iron 2ing onde, pyrconine hyorcchlorce riboflavin, thamine yorcchlcrich, folic acid), whey powder honey sodum bcarbonate, natural flavor cellulose gum salt, quar gum, sow lecithin socium propionate-a preservative, leavening (sodium acio pyrophosphate, sodum bicaabcnate, corn starch monocalcium phosphate, calcum sulfate wheat gluten liquid wole eges, contains wheat mlk, soy, eges, may contain peanuts and tree nuts bavor aldi twice
How this analysis is generated
Each ingredient on this product's published label is matched against our 237 source-cited chemical rules, each documenting a concern from peer-reviewed research and regulatory sources. Severity tiers:
- Avoid (red) — banned or restricted in the EU, UK or Canada but still legal in the US, IARC-listed, or strong contact-allergen evidence.
- Caution (amber) — regulatory caution, contamination risk, or condition-specific irritant.
- Mild (green) — low concern but commonly avoided in low-tox formulations.
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