Chocolate Light Cake Mix
Chocolate 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
Chocolate Light Cake Mix draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Chocolate 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
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
Whole Grain Oat Flour, Erythritol, Wheat Flour, Cocoa Processed with Potassium Carbonate, Sugar, Palm Oil, Chocolate Chips (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, sunflower lecithin), Brown Sugar, Natural Flavor, Eggs, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Wheat Protein Isolate, Sea Salt, Baking Soda Cream of Tartar, Monocalcium Phosphate, Stevia Sweetener (steviol glycosides).
Product Details
- Brand
- Halo Top
- Barcode
- 0016000198739
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Safeway
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Chocolate Light Cake Mix rank on ingredient safety?
Chocolate Light Cake Mix scores 3.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 91% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chocolate Light Cake Mix's mapped ingredients average out to 3.5/5, which is 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.