Mug treats
Mug treats by Betty Crocker has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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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 Mug treats, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Mug treats sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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, cream cheese icing (powdered sugar [sugar, corn starch], water, corn syrup, cream cheese [milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum], shortening [palm oil, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60], natural flavor, color added, potassium sorbate [preservative], xanthan gum, agar, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, nonfat milk, sodium phosphate), enriched flour bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (palm, palm kernel, canola). contains 2% or less of: cellulose powder, corn starch, modified corn starch, cinnamon, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), whey protein isolate, egg white, distilled monoglycerides, salt, soy lecithin, whey, natural and artificial flavor, sodium caseinate, xanthan gum, sodium stearoyl lactylate, cellulose gum, color added.
Product Details
- Brand
- Betty Crocker
- Barcode
- 0016000135611
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- France,United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Mug treats above or below average on ingredient safety?
Mug treats scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Mug treats's 5/5 score be read?
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 5/5 average places Mug treats in the Generally Safe 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.