Halo Top NOVA 4

Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix

Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix by Halo Top has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

Wheat Flour, Erythritol, Whole Grain Oat Flour, Sprinkles(sugar, palm kernel and palm oil, corn starch, sunflower lecithin, color [vegetable juice, annatto extract, spirulina extract, turmeric extract, beta carotene, paprika oleoresin], maltodextrin, carnauba wax, cellulose gum), Palm Oil, Natural Flavor, Egg Whites, Milk Protein Concentrate, Wheat Protein Isolate, Sea Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar, Stevia Sweetener (steviol glycosides).

Product Details

Barcode
0016000198715
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.5/5, Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix sits behind 91% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3.5/5 rating on Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.5/5 average places Birthday Cake Light Cake Mix in the Mixed Evidence tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.