Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake
Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake by New Desserts Inc. has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.38 points above 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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Just Desserts, Chocolate 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 Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
Brown sugar, powdered sugar (sugar, corn starch), ghirardelli unsweetened chocolate, unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, sour cream (cultured pasteurized cream, milk, nonfat milk, enzyme), milk, whole eggs, ghirardelli mini dark chocolate chips (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, milk fat, soy lecitin - an emulsifier, vanilla), unsalted butter (pasteurized cream, natural flavors [lactic acid, starter distillate]), canola oil, vanilla (water, alcohol, propylene glycol, vanilla bean [indonesian] and other botanical extractives, natural flavors), baking soda, salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), guar gum, xanthan gum.
Product Details
- Brand
- New Desserts Inc.
- Barcode
- 0013609021055
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is 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.