Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet
Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet by Little Debbie 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
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 Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet, 2 of its 2 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 Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet 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
Sugar, corn syrup, water, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), palm and palm kernel oil, vegetable shortening (hydrogenated soybean and cotton oil, partially hydrogenated soybean amd cottonseed oil, soybean oil, canola oil and/or palm oil, with tbhq and citric acid to preserve freshness), soybean oil, dextrose, contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, toppers (sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, palm and palm kernel oil, corn starch, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, corn syrup, dextrin, yellow 5 lake, confectioner's glaze, blue 1 lake, salt, carnauba wax, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake, titanium dioxide), egg whites, corn starch, emulsifiers (mono - and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, polysorbate 60, polysorbate 80), eggs, baking soda, salt, sorbic acid (to retain freshness), natural and artificial flavor
Product Details
- Brand
- Little Debbie
- Barcode
- 0024300044632
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet sits ahead of 71% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet's 4.5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Little debbie, christmas tree cakes, red velvet's 4.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.