Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles
Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 7 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 1 of its ingredient carries 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
How This Score Is Built
Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 7 of its 7 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles 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
- Sorbitan Monostearate - 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 flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), nonfat milk, vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), eggs, egg yolks, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, whey (milk), contains 2% or less of each of the following: liquid sucrose, corn starch, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), mono - and diglycerides, modified corn starch, soy lecithin, salt, butter (made from milk), natural and artificial flavors (contains milk and egg ingredients), xanthan gum, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate, calcium sulfate, spices, monoglycerides, agar, fd&c yellow # 5, propylene glycol, annatto color, caramel color, dextrose, polysorbate 80, lactic acid, preserved with sodium propionate, sorbic acid and benzoic acid, topped with candy sprinkles (sugar, corn starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and/or soybean], soy lecithin, dextrin, conf
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 7.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600089118
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles's 3.7/5 average puts it in the lower 87%, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles's 3.7/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Juniors yellow iced cakes with colored sprinkles's 3.7/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk tier.
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