Mini snack pies, chocolate
Mini snack pies, chocolate by Tops has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- 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
Mini snack pies, chocolate 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). 8 of its 8 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 Mini snack pies, chocolate sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
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
Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, water, palm oil and fractionated palm oil, sugar, contains less than 2 % of each of the following: vegetable shortening (palm oil, mono - and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), cocoa processed with alkali, food starch-modified, salt, corn starch, vegetable shortening (interesterfied soybean oil, hydrogenated cottonseed oil), preservatives (sodium propionate, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate), corn syrup, soybean oil, dextrose, wheat flour, malted barley flour, titanium dioxide color, glucono delta lactone, sodium stearoyl lactylate, chocolate liquor, xanthan gum, artificial flavors, calcium carbonate, sodium alginate, corn syrup solids, citric acid, agar, yellow 5, yellow 6, propylene glycol, maltodextrin, wheat starch, soy lecithin, mono - and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, baking soda.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Mini snack pies, chocolate: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Brand
- Tops
- Barcode
- 0007078400379
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Mini snack pies, chocolate above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Mini snack pies, chocolate's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Mini snack pies, chocolate 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.