amber
E471
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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Cake Bars
Is Cadbury Cake Bars 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)
Milk chocolate 34% (Sugar, Cocoa mass, Cocoa butter, Dried skimmed _milk_, _Milk_ fat, Vegetable fats (Palm, Shea, Sal, Mango in varying proportions), Dried whey (from _milk_), Emulsifier (_Soya_ lecithin))Chocolate flavoured topping 28% (Vegetable margarine (Vegetable oils (Palm, Rapeseed), Water, Salt), Sugar, Glucose syrup, Water, Icing sugar, Fat reduced cocoa, Maize starch, Dried _egg_ white, Emulsifier (E471))_Wheat_ flour (with added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin)Glucose syrupWaterSugarHumectant (Glycerol)Dried whole _egg_Fat reduced cocoaDried whey (from _milk_)_Soya_ flourVegetable oils (Palm, Rapeseed)Raising agents (E450, Sodium bicarbonate)SaltEmulsifier (E471)_Milk_ proteins.
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.
Each flag links to its primary chemical-level source, and each condition pill links to a PubMed-indexed paper that discusses the chemical class in the context of that condition. Every citation is a real peer-reviewed paper — we don't link to Wikipedia or PubMed search pages. Some pairs use a topically-broad paper (e.g. a fragrance-allergen patch-test review) rather than a single-pair study where the literature is thin. The full evidence chain (chemical → mechanism → condition → paper) is one click away.
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