Kandy bar kakes
Kandy bar kakes by Tastykake has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 1.12 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
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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Kandy bar kakes has 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 Kandy bar kakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
Confectionery cocoa coating (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, whey powder [milk], cocoa powder, soy lecithin [an emulsifier], salt and vanillin [an artificial flavoring]), peanut butter (peanuts, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oil [cottonseed oil, canola oil, and/or soybean oil]), corn syrup, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, eggs, whey (milk), water, cocoa (natural and processed with alkali), soybean oil, contains 2% or less of each of the following:, peanut colored confectionery coating (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, nonfat dry milk, soy lecithin, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, blue 2 lake, red 40 lake, salt, and artificial flavoring added), dextrose, partially defatted peanut flour, corn starch, modified corn starch, glycerine, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), salt, nonfat milk, natural and artificial flavors,
Product Details
- Brand
- Tastykake
- Barcode
- 0025600007303
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Kandy bar kakes's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Kandy bar kakes's 3/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Kandy bar kakes's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is the Mixed Evidence 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.