Sugar Foods, LLC. recall: Cheese and Garlic Croutons

What happened

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA – May 15, 2026 — Sugar Foods LLC is recalling certain lots of Kroger Homestyle Cheese Garlic Croutons, 5oz pouches, UPC 0 11110 81353 4 due to the potential for Salmonella contamination associated with milk powder used as an ingredient in the product. Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella may experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis, and arthritis.

Affected products and codes

• Cheese and Garlic Croutons

  Affected product information: this FDA announcement lists multiple products.

  product

• Sugar Foods, LLC.

  producer

• Kroger

  brand

• 011110813534

  gtin

• 5OZ

  lot

• 11110

  lot

• 81353

  lot

• 332-240-6676

  lot

• 24

  lot