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Pillsbury Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour

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Contaminants · 4

1 at/over limit
From lab tests of this product’s family
Pillsbury Wheat Flours (AP, bread, cake)
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium41 ppbof 5 ppb
Over the limit — 8.2×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: All Purpose Flour Bleached
ArsenicNDof 10 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: All Purpose Flour Bleached
LeadNDof 5 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: All Purpose Flour Bleached
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: All Purpose Flour Bleached

Ingredients · 7

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Common questions

Is Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour healthy?

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour scores 23/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Pillsbury Wheat Flours (AP, bread, cake). It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour?

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour lists 7 ingredients, starting with Unbleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate and Riboflavin. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour?

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour is NOVA group 1: unprocessed or minimally processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour compare to other baking ingredients?

At 23/100 Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour scores worse than most baking ingredients we have scored. A higher-scoring option in baking ingredients is King Arthur Baking Company Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour at 100/100.

Is Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour organic?

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour is not certified organic in our data.

Has Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Enriched wheat flour, bleached or unbleached; no drivers) with the other products in its family, Pillsbury Wheat Flours (AP, bread, cake), and 1 product in its family has been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour contain heavy metals?

Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected cadmium at 41 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in All Purpose Flour Bleached. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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