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Santa Cruz-based Gooder Foods has recalled select lots of its Goodles mac & cheese after eight reported allergic reactions linked to undeclared milk and cashew in two flavored pasta products.
Gooder Foods, the Santa Cruz-based maker of boxed mac & cheese Goodles, issued a recall for two of its flavored pasta products for possible milk and cashew contamination.
Five lots of Vegan Is Believin’ – Plant Based White Cheddar with Spirals may contain milk, which is not listed on the label, and three lots of Here Comes Truffle – Creamy Truffle Flavored Cheddar and Shells may contain cashew, also not listed on the label.
The issue was discovered after customers reported eight allergic reactions to the company, six in connection to Here Comes Truffle and two in connection with Vegan Is Believin’.
Gooder Foods produced the recalled lots between April 7 and April 15, and they were distributed nationally and online between April 29 and Aug. 5. The Food and Drug Administration posted the announcement to its website, but it doesn’t specify which stores might stock the contaminated pasta.
Gooder Foods was founded in Santa Cruz in 2021 by Jen Zeszut and Paul Earle, a former executive at Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, with founding partners Deb Luster, former president of Annie’s Homegrown and award-winning actor Gal Gadot, who starred as Wonder Woman in the DC Comics movie franchise. Its boxed mac & cheese and plain pasta target health-conscious consumers with noodles formulated with nutrients and fiber derived from plants like chickpeas, kale and pumpkin.
FOR THE RECORD: A previous version of this story misstated the founders of Gooder Foods. The founders are Jes Zeszut and Paule Earle.
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