Cruch mini donuts

Cruch mini donuts: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Cruch mini donuts by Tastykake has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Cruch mini donuts 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). 2 of its 2 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 Cruch mini donuts sits nationally

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

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
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

sugar, unbleached and bleached enriched flour (wheat fl riboflavin, folic acid), water, vegetable oil (palm oil and soybean oil flour, sugar, soybean oil, yellow corn flour, yeast, salt, caramel color bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate), sodium propionate preservative], extractives of paprika [color]), whey (milk), contains 2% or less of each of the following: leavening (sodium bicarbonate, so um aluminum phosphate, soqium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), glycerine, soy flour, nonfat milk solids, salt, corn syrup solids, denrose, with turmeric and an citrig acharel. bleached wheat coarse agar, titanium dioxide care cerides monovate, enzymes, tapioca corn districerides, caramel color, preserved with potassium sorbate, sodium propionate, and sorbic acid ted by tasty baking gompany, philadelphia, pa 19112 ld food ingredient contains a bioengineered r comments 1-866-245 - 8921 wwwastykake.com xanthan gum, smurfs-&0th 2025-licensed through lafiq belgiummps smurfs, th

Product Details

Barcode
0025600007914
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cruch mini donuts above or below average on ingredient safety?

Cruch mini donuts scores 3.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 91% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.5/5 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 3.5/5 average places Cruch mini donuts in the Mixed Evidence 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.