| CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY WORK OF SPROUTS FARMER'S MARKET INC. |
| The following ingredients are prohibited for use in SPROUTS BRAND products, unless exemptions have been granted |
| For further information, please contact DIRECTOR, FOOD SCIENCE at rickysingh@sprouts.com |
| Any Bionegineered Ingredients |
| Prohibited Colors and Flavors: |
| Acetoin |
| Artificial colors |
| Artificial flavors |
| Azo dyes |
| Caramel Colors (Type 3 and 4 which contain 4-Mel) |
| Carmine |
| Certified colors |
| Citrus Red No. 2 |
| Cochinal extract |
| Diacetyls (synthetic) |
| disodium 5'-ribonucleotide |
| Disodium Guanylate |
| Disodium Inosinate |
| Ethyl vanillin |
| FD&C Blue No. 2 – Indigotine, E132 (indigo shade) |
| FD&C colors |
| FD&C Green No. 3 – Fast Green FCF, E143 (turquoise shade) |
| FD&C Red No. 3 – Erythrosine, E127 |
| FD&C Red No. 40 – Allura Red AC, E129 (red shade) |
| FD&C Yellow No. 5 – Tartrazine, E102 (yellow shade) |
| FD&C Yellow No. 6 – Sunset Yellow FCF, E110 (orange shade) |
| FD&C Blue No. 1 – Brilliant Blue FCF, E133 (blue shade) |
| Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and glutamate salts |
| Pyridine (synthetic) |
| Synthetic flavors |
| Vanilin, synthetic |
| Sweeteners: |
| Acesulfame -K |
| Advantame |
| Artificial sweeteners |
| Aspartame |
| Cyclamates (such as sodium cylamate) |
| High fructose corn syryp |
| Neotame |
| Polydextrose |
| Saccharin and its salts |
| Sucralose |
| Sucrose esters |
| Fats and oils: |
| Caprocaprylobehenin |
| Hydrogenated Oil/fats |
| Interesterified fat/oil |
| Margarine |
| Olestra /Olean |
| Palm oils (non-RSPO) |
| Partially hydrogenated oils |
| Salatrim |
| Solvent extracted oil (as stand alone, single ingredient) |
| Preservatives, emulsifiers, additives: |
| 2,4,5-trihydroxybutyrophenone (THBP) |
| 5-HTP |
| Acetone peroxide |
| Activated Charcoal |
| Aluminum salts |
| Aluminum sulfates |
| Ammonium Chloride |
| Ammonium sulfates |
| Azodicarbonamide |
| Benzoates |
| Benzoic acid |
| Benzoyl peroxide |
| Benzyl Alcohol (synthetic) |
| Beta cyclodextrin |
| BHA |
| BHT |
| Bisulfites and metabisulfites in non-fermented products |
| Bleached flour |
| Bromated Flour |
| Bromates (sodium, calcium, potassium) |
| Brominated vegetable oil |
| Calcium peroxide |
| Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate (SSL) |
| Cottonseed Oil (genetically modified) |
| DATEM |
| Dioctyl Sodium Sulfocsuccinate (DSS) |
| Disodium EDTA and its salts |
| Erythorbic Acid |
| Esters of mono-and diglycerides |
| Ethoxyquin |
| Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) |
| Foie gras |
| L-cysteine (synthetic) |
| Methylparabens and other parabens |
| Microparticularized Protein |
| Mono and diglycerides (not vegetable derived) |
| Natamycin (natural version okay) |
| Oxystearin |
| Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) |
| Potassium Benzoate |
| Potassium Nitrate or nitrite |
| Propionates (calcium, sodium, potassium) |
| Propionic Acid |
| propyl gallates and other gallates |
| Propylene Glycol (antifreeze) |
| propylene oxide |
| Ractopamine (in livestick feed) |
| Silicones (like methyl silicon /dimethyl silicone) |
| Sodium Aluminum Phosphate (SALP) and MALP |
| Sodium Aluminum Sulfate |
| Sodium benzoate |
| Sodium bisulfite/bisulfate |
| Sodium diacetate |
| Sodium erythorbate (color binders) |
| Sodium ferrocyanide, E535 |
| Sodium Lauryl Sulfate |
| Sodium metabisulfite in non-fermented products |
| Sodium Nitrate |
| Sodium Nitrite |
| Sodium Polyacrylate |
| Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate |
| Sodium triphosphate (STPP) and sodium polyphosphates |
| Sorbates (like calcium, potassium, sodium) |
| Sorbic acid |
| stannous chloride |
| succinic acid and its salts |
| succistearin |
| sucroglycerides |
| Sulfites in non-fermented foods |
| Synthetic Growth hormones (rBST/rBGH) |
| Tert-butyhydroquinone (TBHQ) |
| Tetrasodium EDTA |
| Thiodipropionic acid |
| Titanium Dioxide |
| Toluene |
| Tonka bean extract |
| Transglutaminase (meat glue/pink slime) |
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