P.b. richies chocolate cakes
P.b. richies chocolate cakes by Little Debbie has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 points below 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 2.12 points below 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 P.b. richies chocolate cakes, 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 P.b. richies chocolate cakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
Sugar, water, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), peanut butter (peanuts, palm kernel oil, peanut oil), palm and palm kernel oil, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, palm and soybean oils with tbhq and citric acid to protect flavor, cocoa. contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, whey, dextrose, palm oil, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), corn starch, salt, cocoa processed with alkali, modified corn starch, eggs, nonfat dry milk, buttermilk, natural and artificial flavors, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60, calcium and sodium caseinate, potassium sorbate and sorbic acid (to preserve freshness).
Product Details
- Brand
- Little Debbie
- Barcode
- 0024300044878
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does P.b. richies chocolate cakes's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, P.b. richies chocolate cakes's 2/5 average puts it in the lower 100%, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on P.b. richies chocolate cakes?
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 2/5 average places P.b. richies chocolate cakes in the Caution 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.