Pumpkin spice flavored cupcakes with cream cheese icing

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Product Insight: Pumpkin spice flavored cupcakes with cream cheese icing

Pumpkin spice flavored cupcakes with cream cheese icing by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company is tracked in PlainIngredients with 4 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 3 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.

Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.

Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

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, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), pumpkin, nonfat milk, high fructose corn syrup, egg whites, eggs, contains 2% or less of each of the following: corn starch, whey (milk), dextrose, corn syrup, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), liquid sucrose, butter (made from milk), mono - and diglycerides, salt, caramel color, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors (contains milk ingredients), soy lecithin, cinnamon, spices, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, xanthan gum, calcium sulfate, lactylic esters of fatty acids, agar, lactic acid sorbic acid and potassium sorbate (to retard spoilage) manufactured on shared equipment that also processes products containing tree nuts and peanuts.

Data Sources

  • Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
  • FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
  • EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008

Product Details

Barcode
0025600007853
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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