Little Debbie Nutri-Score C NOVA 4

mini blueberry muffins

mini blueberry muffins: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

mini blueberry muffins by Little Debbie has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Pastries

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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for mini blueberry muffins have 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 mini blueberry muffins sits nationally

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

3.5 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

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

Sugar, water, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), blueberries, soybean oil, modified corn starch. contains 2% or less of each of the following: palm oil, egg whites, whey (milk), soy lecithin, wheat gluten, natural and artificial flavors, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), glycerin, salt, eggs, sorbitan monostearate, soy flour, corn flour, sodium stearoyl lactylate, propylene glycol monostearate, mono - and diglycerides, sorbic acid (to preserve freshness), polysorbate 60, xanthan and guar gums.

Product Details

Barcode
0024300833724
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does mini blueberry muffins rank on ingredient safety?

mini blueberry muffins scores 3.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 91% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3.5/5 rating on mini blueberry muffins?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; mini blueberry muffins's 3.5/5 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.