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Carrageenan
Gut inflammation concerns; contested in research literature but worth a trial of avoidance for IBS.
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Ben & Jerry's Cool-lection Mini Brookie Dough Tubs 4 pack
Is Ben & Jerry's Cool-lection Mini Brookie Dough Tubs 4 pack 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)
Vanilla ice cream with brownie pieces (12%) and cookie swirls (10%).Dairy ingredients cream (milk)reconstituted skim milkconcentrated skim milksugarwheat flourvegetable oils (soy oil, canola oil)eggcorn starchwatercocoa components (cocoa powder, cocoa butter)invert sugarflavoursaltemulsifier (soy lecithin)thickeners (guar gum, carrageenan)sodium bicarbonatemolassesmalted barley flourvanilla extractglucose.Vanilla ice cream with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough (16%) and fudge flakes (4.5%).Dairy ingredients cream (milk)reconstituted skim milkconcentrated skim milkbutter (milk)milk fatsugars (sugar, brown sugar)wheat floureggoils (coconut, soy)cocoa components (1.4%) (cocoa powder, cocoa mass, cocoa butter)watermolassesvanilla extractthickeners (guar gum, carrageenan)natural flavours and flavouringssaltemulsifiers (soy lecithin)glucose.
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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