Frosted cake
Frosted cake by The Bakery, Dawn Food Products Inc. has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with 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. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Frosted cake 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 Frosted cake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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, enriched wheat flour bleached (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, palm oil, eggs, canola oil, soybean oil, pastel confetti sprinkles (sugar, cornstarch, rice flour, palm oil, gum arabic, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavor, titanium dioxide [color], red 3, blue 1 lake, blue 1, yellow 5, yellow 6, preservative [potassium sorbate], mono - and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), invert sugar, contains 2% or less of: blue 1,blue 1 lake, blue sprinkles (sugar, cornstarch, palm and palm kernel oil, dextrin, soy lecithin, blue 1 lake confectioner's glaze [shellac], natural and artificial flavor, carnauba wax), cellulose gum, citric acid, corn syrup, cornstarch, dextrose, egg whites, food starch-modified, green sprinkles (sugar, cornstarch, palm kernel and/or palm oil, soy lecithin, dextrin, confectioner's glaze [shellac], yellow 5, natural and artificial flavor, carnauba wax, blue 1), guar gum, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, sod
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Frosted 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0029519148003
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Frosted cake's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.2/5, Frosted cake sits ahead of 60% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.2/5 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 4.2/5 average places Frosted 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.