Cosmic cupcakes
Cosmic cupcakes by Little Debbie has 12 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.28 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
Cosmic cupcakes 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). 12 of its 12 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 Cosmic cupcakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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, 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
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cosmic cupcakes: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 12.
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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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Frequently asked questions
How does Cosmic cupcakes's safety score compare to other products?
Cosmic cupcakes scores 4.4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 69% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.4/5 rating on Cosmic cupcakes?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Cosmic cupcakes's mapped ingredients average out to 4.4/5, 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.