Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter
Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Cakes
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter 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 Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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, peanut butter, partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated vegetable shortening (palm kernel, canola, rapeseed, cottonseed, palm, and/or soybean oils), bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate-b1, riboflavin-b2, folic acid), water, whey (milk), eggs, cocoa, contains two percent or less of: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, skim milk, food starch - modified, salt, mono & diglycerides, soy lecithin, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), natural and artificial flavors, xanthan gum, coconut oil, corn flour, propylene glycol, monostearate, nutmeg, lactylic esters of fatty acids, cinnamon.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter: 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600000151
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.3/5, Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter sits ahead of 62% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chocolate Coating Kandy Kakes, Peanut Butter's mapped ingredients average out to 4.3/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
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