Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing

Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing: 4/5 ingredient safety

Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 4 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, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • 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 / Cakes

How This Score Is Built

Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing 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). 4 of its 4 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 yellow layer cake with chocolate icing 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

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

Sugar, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate riboflavin, folic acid), nonfat milk, vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), eggs. egg yolks, corn syrup, cocoa, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% or less of each of the following: liquid sucrose, corn starch, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), modified corn starch, mono - and diglycerdies, butter (made from milk), soy lecithin, salt, natural and artificial flavors, polysorbate 60, xanthan gum, sorbitan monostearate, distilled monoglycerides, calcium sulfate, spices, monoglycerides, agar, lactic acid, preserved with sodium propionate, sorbic acid and benzoic acid.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0025600000052
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing rank on ingredient safety?

Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing's 4/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chocolate yellow layer cake with chocolate icing's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.