Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite
Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite by Meijer has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Biscuits and crackers / Biscuits
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
Candy Bite Cookie: Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, And Folic Acid), M&M'S Chocolate Candies (Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial And Natural Flavors), Sugar Cornstarch, Less Than 1% - Corn Syrup, Dextrin, Coloring (Includes Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Blue 2), Carnauba Wax, Gum Acacia), Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Butter (Pasteurized Cream, Natural Flavorings), Vegetable Shortening (High Oleic Canola Oil And Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil), Eggs, Distilled Monoglycerides, Sugarcane Molasses, Dextrose, Salt (Salt, Yellow Prussiate Of Soda [Anti-Caking]), Sodium Bicarbonate, Natural & Artificial Chocolate Flavor (Propylene Glycol, Natural & Artificial Flavor, Alcohol, Water), Vanilla Flavoring (Water, Propylene Glycol, Alcohol, Artificial Flavors, Citric Acid).
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Meijer
- Barcode
- 0041250505556
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite's 4/5 score be read?
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 4/5 average places Candy Bite Ultimate Cookie, Candy Bite in the Low Risk 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.