Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes
Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes by Maplehurst Bakeries Llc has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- 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
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 Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes, 6 of its 6 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 Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
- Calcium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate - 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, water, vegetable oil (palm, soybean, palm kernel, canola), bleached enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), food starch-modified eggs, cocoa (processed with alkali), cornstarch, corn syrup mono - and diglycerides, nonfat milk, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, aluminum sulfate), salt, whey, egg whites, dextrose, soy lecithin, guar gum, natural & artificial flavors, polysorbate 60, potassium sorbate (preservative), wheat starch gum arabic, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, glycerin, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, calcium sulfate, yellow 5, sodium stearoyl lactylate, blue 1, wheat protein, calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate, yellow 5, datem, red 40, methylcellulose, xanthan gum.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Maplehurst Bakeries Llc
- Barcode
- 0010995305653
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes above or below average on ingredient safety?
Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 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 4/5 average places Holiday Merriment, Mini Gold & Chocolate Cupcakes 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.