Cosmic cupcakes
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Product Insight: Cosmic cupcakes
Cosmic cupcakes by Little Debbie is tracked in PlainIngredients with 12 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is E, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 12 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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, water, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), soybean oil, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, eggs, sorbitol, cocoa processed with alkali, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil with tbhq to preserve flavor, invert sugar. contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, cosmic candy pieces (semi-sweet chocolate chips [sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla], sugar, corn starch, titanium dioxide, confectioner's glaze, carnauba wax, yellow 5 lake, blue 2 lake, yellow 6 lake, blue 1 lake, red 3, milk), palm oil, corn starch, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, salt, chocolate, whey (milk), natural and artificial flavors, emulsifiers (sorbitan monostearate, mono - and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, propylene glycol monostearate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin), leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, calcium phosphate), col
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Little Debbie
- Barcode
- 0024300044465
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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