Pastry crisps
Pastry crisps by Special K has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Bars / Biscuits and cakes / Cereal bars / Pastries
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 Pastry crisps, 5 of its 5 tracked ingredients carry 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 Pastry crisps sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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
Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin b1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin b2 [riboflavin], folic acid), sugar, invert sugar, vegetable oil (soybean, palm and palm kernel oil with tbhq for freshness), glycerin, dextrose, cocoa processed with alkali, maltodextrin, modified food starch. contains 2% or less of natural and artificial flavors, rice flour, cornstarch, dried cream (cream, nonfat milk, sunflower lecithin), leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), soy lecithin, cellulose gel, salt, cellulose gum, nonfat milk, sodium citrate, datem, sodium alginate, xanthan gum, mono - and diglycerides, gum acacia, color added, cocoa butter, bht for freshness.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Pastry crisps: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Special K
- Barcode
- 0038000167751
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- France,United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Pastry crisps rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.4/5, Pastry crisps sits ahead of 69% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Pastry crisps's 4.4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.