Loaf cake
Loaf cake by Kroger has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- 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
Loaf cake draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Loaf cake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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
Bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, malted barley flour, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, whole eggs, butter (cream [milk], salt), lemon concentrate (corn syrup, lemon peel, water, lemon puree, artificial flavor, modified corn starch, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [preservatives], yellow 5), lemon peel, whole milk (milk, vitamin d3), vegetable shortening (palm oil, soybean oil, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin), soybean oil, glycerine. contains 2% or less of each of the following: modified food starch (corn, tapioca), natural and artificial flavor (milk), water, wheat starch, whey (milk), salt, corn syrup solids, emulsifier (propylene glycol esters, mono - and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate), vital wheat gluten, buttermilk powder, sodium bicarbonate, acidic sodium aluminum phosphate, aluminum sulfate, potassium sorbate (preservative), soy leci
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Loaf 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: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110060259
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Loaf cake rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.2/5, Loaf cake sits ahead of 60% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.2/5 rating on Loaf cake?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Loaf cake's mapped ingredients average out to 4.2/5, 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.