Leave Out List

The following types of ingredients are banned from our Maple Avenue Foods products – when you see the maple leaf, you can know we “leave” these out:

• Antibiotic-treated Proteins
• Artificial Colors & Colorants
• Artificial Fats & Fat Substitutes
• Artificial Flavors
• Artificial Ingredients
• Artificial Preservatives
• Artificial Sweeteners (including High Fructose Corn Syrup)
• Caged Eggs
• Chemical Flavor Enhancers
• GMO/Solvent-extracted Oils (Mayonnaise)
• Seafood with Added Chemicals

Below is our most comprehensive list of banned ingredients that we do not consider “clean label”. This list has been updated as of December 2021; we will maintain and update the list as needed.

We “Leave Out”:

ARTIFICIAL COLORS

AZO DYES

CARMINE (COCHINEAL)

CERTIFIED COLORS

ERYTHROSINE

FD&C COLORS

GARDENIA BLUE

BENZOYL PEROXIDE

ARTIFICIAL FATS

CAPROCAPRYLOBEHENIN/CAPRENIN

HEXA-, HEPTA- AND OCTA-ESTERS OF SUCROSE; SUCROSE ESTER

PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OIL

HYDROGENATED OILS OR FAT

OXYSTEARIN

MICROPARTICULIZED WHEY PROTEIN

SUCROSE POLYESTER

TRANS FATS (ARTIFICIAL SOURCES)

ARTIFICIAL INGREDIENTS

ALUMINUM SULFATE, ALUM

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE

AMMONIUM SULFATE, AMMONIUM ALUM

AZODICARBONAMIDE

BLEACHED FLOUR

BROMATED FLOUR

BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL (BVO)

BUTANE GLYCOL

CALCIUM BROMATE

CALCIUM PEROXIDE

CALCIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE

DATEM; ACETYLATED ESTERS OF MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES; LACTIC ACID ESTERS OF MONOGLYCERIDES; LACTYLATED ESTERS OF MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES

DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANE

DIOCTYL SODIUM SULFOSUCCINATE (DSS)

L-CYSTEINE

METHYL SILICON

POLYDEXTROSE

POLYSORBATES (60, 65, 80)

POTASSIUM BROMATE

POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE

PROPYLENE GLYCOL

PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS

SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE

SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE

SODIUM ERYTHORBATE

SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE

SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE (SLS)

SODIUM SILICOALUMINATE

SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE

SODIUM THIOSULFATE

STANNOUS CHLORIDE

SUCCINIC ACID

SUCROGLYCERIDES

SUCROSE ACETATEISOBUTYRATE (SAIB)

TBHQ (TERTIARY BUTYLHYDROQUINONE)

TRANSGLUTAMINASE (“MEAT GLUE”)

ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES

BENZOATES; POTASSIUM BENZOATE; SODIUM BENZOATE

BENZYL ALCOHOL (SOLVENT)

BHA (BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE)

BHT (BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE)

CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA; DISODIUM CALCIUM EDTA; DISODIUM

DIHYDROGEN EDTA; EDTA; TETRASODIUM EDTA

DIMETHYL DICARBONATE (DMDC)

ETHYLENE OXIDE

ETHOXYQUIN

METHYLPARABEN, PROPYLPARABEN

NATAMYCIN

NITRATES; NITRITES (SYNTHETIC)

POTASSIUM BISULFITE

POTASSIUM METABISULFITE

POTASSIUM NITRATE/NITRITE

PROPIONATES; CALCIUM PROPIONATE; PROPIONIC ACID; SODIUM PROPIONATE

PROPYL GALLATE

PROPYLENE OXIDE

SODIUM BISULFITE; SODIUM ACID SULFATE

SODIUM DIACETATE

SODIUM METABISULFITE

SODIUM NITRATE/NITRITE

SODIUM SULFITE

SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE

SORBIC ACID; CALCIUM SORBATE; POTASSIUM SORBATE; SODIUM SORBATE,
SULFUR DIOXIDE (ADDED SULFITES, NATURALLY OCCURING OK)

ARTIFICIAL FLAVORINGS

ETHYL VANILLIN (ARTIFICIAL)

VANILLIN (ARTIFICIAL)

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS

ACESULFAME-K; ACESULFAME-POTASSIUM

ASPARTAME

CYCLAMATES

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP; GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE SYRUP; ISOGLUCOSE

HYDROGENATED STARCH

METHYLENE CHLORIDE

NEOTAME

SACCHARIN; CALCIUM SACCHARIN; SODIUM SACCHARIN

SUCRALOSE

DISODIUM GUANYLATE (GMP)

DISODIUM INOSINATE (IMP)

DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHERYL ACETATE

HYDROLYZED SOY OR CORN PROTEINS

INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG); SODIUM GLUTAMATE