Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar
Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar by Giant Eagle has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 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 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Biscuits and crackers / Biscuits
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar, 9 of its 9 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
- Sorbitan Tristearate - Safety score: 2/5
- Titanium Dioxide - Safety score: 2/5
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 Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Contains Less Than 2% Of Whey Solids, Vegetable Mono & Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Bha & Bht Added To Protect Flavor, Vitamin A Palmitate And Vitamin D3 Added, Natural & Artificial Flavor), Water, Corn Syrup, Corn Starch, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Nonfat Dry Milk, Vanilla, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Glycerine, Carmine (Color), Modified Food Starch, Red 40, Carrageenan Gum, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Red 3, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Palm & Palm Kernel Oil, Soy Lecithin, Dextrin, Confectioner'S Glaze, Carnauba Wax, Red 40 Lake, Rice Cereal (Rice Flour, Corn Flour, Sugar, Malt Extract, Salt, Oat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Soy Lecithin), Palm Kernel Fat, Maltodextrin, Tapioca Starch, Dried Glucose Syrup, Titanium Dioxide (Color),
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 9.
Product Details
- Brand
- Giant Eagle
- Barcode
- 0030034936570
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
Find Products
Frequently asked questions
Is Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar's 3.8/5 average puts it in the lower 84%, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar's 3.8/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Frosted Sugar Cookies, Frosted Sugar's 3.8/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.