Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Dessert cake

Dessert cake: 3.7/5 ingredient safety

Dessert cake has 10 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Cakes

Product Insight: Dessert cake

Dessert cake is tracked in PlainIngredients with 10 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 3.7 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), and Its Nutri-Score grade is E. Within the identified ingredient list, 2 ingredients are currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 6 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale. This product's average ingredient safety score is 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

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Where Dessert cake sits nationally

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

3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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

3.7
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.7 out of 5
Based on 10 tracked ingredients
10
Tracked Ingredients
2
Concerning
6
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
2 ingredients flagged for safety concerns

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

Powdered sugar, sugar, enriched wheat flour bleached (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, egg whites, eggs, soybean oil, canola oil, water, butter (pasteurized cream and salt), invert sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel oil), cocoa processed with alkali, corn syrup solids, corn syrup, semisweet chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, butter oil, soy lecithin, natural vanilla), glycerin, mono - and diglycerides, nonfat milk, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fatty acids, food starch - modified, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate), salt, dextrose, cornstarch, potassium sorbate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy flour, whey, soy lecithin, white and semisweet chocolate square (sugar, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate liquor, whey, soy lecithin, butter oil, natural vanilla), corn flour, polysorbate 60, caramel color, xanthan gum, sodium stearoyl

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Dessert cake: 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
0029519231637
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Dessert cake's safety score compare to other products?

Dessert cake scores 3.7 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 87% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.7/5 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 3.7/5 average places Dessert cake 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.