Cookie bars
Cookie bars by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 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
How This Score Is Built
Cookie bars 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). 5 of its 5 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 Cookie bars sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), pumpkin, nonfat maik, hugh fructose corn syrup, egg whites, eggs, contains 2% or less of the following: corn starch, whey (milk), dextrose, corn syrup, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), liquid sucrose, butter (made from milk) mono - and diglycerides, salt, caramel color, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors (contains milk ingredients), soy licithin, cinnamon, spices, propylene, glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, xanthan gum, calcium sulfate, lactylic esters of fatty acids, agar, lactic acid, sorbic acid and potassium sorbate (to retard spoilage).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cookie bars: 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: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600091616
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Cookie bars's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cookie bars's 4.2/5 average puts it in the safer 60%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Cookie bars's 4.2/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Cookie bars's 4.2/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.