amber
BHA
IARC-classified possible human carcinogen.
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Dairy Milk Whispers Milk Chocolate With Malted Honeycomb Centre
Is Cadbury Dairy Milk Whispers Milk Chocolate With Malted Honeycomb Centre low tox? Our scanner flagged 4 ingredients (4 in the caution tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
4 caution
4 ingredients flagged
What we flagged
amber
Tbhq
Petroleum-derived antioxidant; immune-modulating in animal studies.
amber
E481
Industrial dough conditioner / emulsifier. Same Chassaing-class concerns for gut-barrier disruption.
amber
E476
Castor-oil-derived emulsifier ubiquitous in compound chocolate. Same gut-barrier concerns as the other Chassaing-class emulsifiers.
Full ingredients (from label)
Sugarfull cream milk powdermalted centre (malted milk powder, barley malt extract, corn starch, salt, flavouring)wheat flourwhey powder (cow's milk)calcium caseinate (cow's milk)sunflower vegetable fats (palm kernel, BHA)sunflower seedTBHQmaltodextrinemulsifier (E481)barley malt extractcorn starchsaltflavouringcocoa masscocoa buttervegetable fats (palm fruit, shea, sal seed, illipe seed)tocopherolcitric acidglucose syrupcorn syrupemulsifiers (E442, E476)glazing agents (E904, E414)glucose solidspreservative (potassium sorbate)flavouringsmilk solids
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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