Cheese Danish With Icing
Cheese Danish With Icing by Little Debbie has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 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
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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. 9 of 9 ingredients tracked for Cheese Danish With Icing 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 Cheese Danish With Icing sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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
SUGAR, ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), WATER, MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SALT, MONOGLYCERIDES, WHEY, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, BETA CAROTENE COLOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE), EGG WHITES. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: PASTEURIZED CULTURED CREAM AND MILK, YEAST, SOYBEAN OIL, EGGS, PALM OIL, DEXTROSE, WHEY CALCIUM CARBONATE, EMULSIFIER (MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE), MODIFIED CORN AND TAPIOCA STARCHES, CORN STARCH, SALT, MILK BLEND (NONFAT MILK, WHEY), CALCIUM PROPIONATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SORBIC ACID AND TOCOPHEROLS TO RETAIN FRESHNESS, DEFATTED ENZYME-ACTIVE SOY FLOUR, GUAR AND LOCUST BEAN AND XANTHAN GUMS, SODIUM CASEINATE, WHEAT GLUTEN, LACTOSE, WHEAT FLOUR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, AGAR, CALCIUM SULFATE, FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, COLORS (TITANIUM DIOXIDE, BETA CAROTENE), PECT
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cheese Danish With Icing: 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: 4.1/5.
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Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 9.
Product Details
- Brand
- Little Debbie
- Barcode
- 0024300044533
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Cheese Danish With Icing's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cheese Danish With Icing's 4.1/5 average puts it in the safer 58%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Cheese Danish With Icing's 4.1/5 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 4.1/5 average places Cheese Danish With Icing 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.