Danish pastries
Danish pastries by Little Debbie has 12 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.18 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
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. 12 of 12 ingredients tracked for Danish pastries 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 Danish pastries sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), sugar, water, margarine (palm oil, water, salt, monoglycerides, whey, sodium benzoate [preservative], natural and artificial flavor, citric acid, beta carotene color, vitamin a palmitate), cherries. contains 2% or less of each of the following: soybean oil, eggs, yeast, palm oil, dextrose, egg whites, pasteurized cultured cream and milk, salt, emulsifiers (mono - and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate), calcium carbonate, modified corn and tapioca starches, corn starch, high fructose corn syrup, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate and sorbic acid and tocopherols to retain freshness, defatted enzyme-active soy flour, corn syrup, guar and cellulose and xanthan and locust bean gums, milk blend (nonfat milk, whey), citric acid, wheat gluten, natural and artificial flavors, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate), wheat
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Danish pastries: 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: 4.3/5.
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
- 0024300044502
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Danish pastries rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.3/5, Danish pastries sits ahead of 62% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Danish pastries's 4.3/5 score be read?
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 4.3/5 average places Danish pastries 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.