Hill & Valley Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Lemon creme cake

Lemon creme cake: 4.1/5 ingredient safety

Lemon creme cake by Hill & Valley has 7 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score in line with 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 Lemon creme cake, 7 of its 7 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 Lemon creme cake sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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

4.1
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.1 out of 5
Based on 7 tracked ingredients
7
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
6
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Maltitol* and sorbitol* syrup, eggs, bleached enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, wheat flour, soy oil blend and soy oil shortening (soybean oil, mono - and diglycerides, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fatty acids, glyceryl-lacto esters of fatty acids), egg whites, pan release (soybean oil, corn flour, vegetable shortening, soy lecithin and tbhq as an antioxidant), maltodextrin, food starch-modified, lemon puree (lemon juice concentrate, lemon pulp cells, lemon peel, lemon oil), maltitol*, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), natural lemon flavor emulsion, palm oil, salt, vanilla extract, natural and artificial flavor (contains wheat and milk), glucono delta-lactone, emulsifier product [propylene glycol monostearate, monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium silicate, ascorbic acid (preservative), citric acid (preservative)], calcium propionate (preserva

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Lemon creme 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0014821103307
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Lemon creme cake above or below average on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4.1/5, Lemon creme cake sits ahead of 58% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Lemon creme cake's 4.1/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Lemon creme cake's mapped ingredients average out to 4.1/5, 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.