# Banza Brown Rice Cheddar Shells — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Banza
- **Product:** Brown Rice Cheddar Shells
- **Sold at:** eatbanza.com
- **Product page:** https://eatbanza.com/products/brown-rice-cheddar-shells
- **Assessment ID:** pta_3263ddb1a69340c7afca9d42dbfee358
- **Assessed:** 2026-10-26
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Not final · review pending  
  ⚠️ At least one claim here is **preliminary** — a person is still reviewing it; see the per-claim status.
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.3
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_3263ddb1a69340c7afca9d42dbfee358

## Overall (safe to quote)

Brown Rice Cheddar Shells by Banza — public trust assessment of 2 observed badge claim(s): Vegan: Conflicting Public Evidence; Gluten-Free: Certification Match Found. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Gluten-Free

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 76/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Cheddar Elbows Description Nutrition Cooking Tips As the gluten free pasta pros, we’ve created a creamy, perfectly al dente”
- **Certifier named:** GFCO
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Gluten-Free claim and a public certification record from GFCO appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product family-level, product-level. The product page's description mentions barley — worth confirming against the actual ingredient label for a Gluten-Free claim, though it was not found in the ingredient list itself. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. GFCO's standard: Stricter than the FDA's own <20 ppm labeling rule.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-20
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured GFCO match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Conflict detected — review pending (`preliminary`)
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Cheese Brown Rice Mac & Cheese Pizza Protein Waffles Vegan Wholesale Orzo Cascatelli Bucatini Penne Rotini Elbows”
- **Safe citation wording:** Preliminary — awaiting TilliT review: Publicly available sources show the product page displays a vegan claim, while the product's own declared ingredient list names milk, whey, and buttermilk, and the product description mentions butter; these public sources conflict. Other retrieved brand materials address sourcing, manufacturing, and pesticide testing but do not address vegan status for this product, and no independent vegan verification was retrieved. This wording reflects only what the cited public evidence shows and does not constitute verification of the claim.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-16
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Allergen-Free, Organic, Non-GMO, Fair Trade.

## Machine-readable versions

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## How to cite this

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_Generated 2026-10-26T06:20:14+00:00 from assessment pta_3263ddb1a69340c7afca9d42dbfee358._