Kroger, white peppermint cake
Kroger, white peppermint cake has 11 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.4 out of 5, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.72 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
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 Kroger, white peppermint cake, 11 of its 11 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 Kroger, white peppermint cake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.4 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
- Titanium Dioxide - 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
Cake-sugar, enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, soybean oil, eggs, egg whites, modified corn starch. contains 2% or less of nonfat milk, salt, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), vital wheat gluten, sorbitan monostearate, mono - & diglycerides, polysorbate 60, sodium stearoyl lactylate, dextrose, artificial & natural flavors, soy lecithin, white icing - sugar, vegetable shortening (interesterified soybean oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, mono-and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), corn syrup, water. contains less than 2% of salt, citric acid, cornstarch, natural and artificial flavor, dextrose, titanium dioxide (for color), potassium sorbate (preservative). chocolate icing also contains-cocoa processed with alkali, caramel color, polysorbate 80. colored icing also contains - shortening [palm oil, canola and/or soybean oil, mono and diglycerides,
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Kroger, white peppermint cake: 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: 3.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 11.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0011110653482
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Kroger, white peppermint cake above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Kroger, white peppermint cake's 3.4/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Kroger, white peppermint cake's 3.4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.