Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake
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Product Insight: Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake
Just Desserts, Chocolate Cake by New Desserts Inc. is tracked in PlainIngredients with 2 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.5 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is E, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 2 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
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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