Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes

Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes: 4.6/5 ingredient safety

Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes by Little Debbie has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.6 out of 5, 0.48 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.48 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 9 of 9 ingredients tracked for Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.6 Top 19% higher than 81% 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

4.6
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 4.6 out of 5
Based on 9 tracked ingredients
9
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
8
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

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

Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), water, sugar, soybean oil, eggs, invert syrup, margarine (palm oil, water, salt, monoglycerides, natural flavor, citric acid, beta carotene color, vitamin a palmitate). contains 2% or less of each of the following: leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin), citric acid, pasteurized cultured cream, skim milk, guar gum, modified corn starch, glycerin, natural and artificial flavors, preservatives (tocopherols, ascorbic acid, potassium sorbate, sodium propionate), palm oil, sodium caseinate, lactose, salt, pectin, carrageenan, silicon dioxide, lactic acid, locust bean gum, triglycerides, xanthan gum, enzymes.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes: 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
0024300044591
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes's 4.6/5 average puts it in the safer 81%, 0.48 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4.6/5 ingredient safety score mean?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.6/5 average places Cream Cheese Streusel Cakes in the Generally Safe 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.