Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake

Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake: 4/5 ingredient safety

Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake by Bakery Fresh has 15 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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 Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake, 15 of its 15 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 Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 15 tracked ingredients
15
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
12
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

icing sugar, vegetable shortening, canola oil, palm oil, soybean oil, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, citric acid, beta carotene, vitamin A palmitate, water, wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, sugar, eggs, cocoa processed with alkali, canola oil, palm and palm kernel oil, margarine, soybean oil, water, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, sodium benzoate, artificial flavor, beta carotene, vitamin A palmitate, baking powder, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate, salt, whey, nonfat milk, vanilla, glucose syrup, modified corn starch, corn syrup, corn flour, corn syrup solids, xanthan gum, guar gum, sodium alginate, polysorbate 80, artificial flavor, soy lecithin, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, citric acid, caramel color, artificial color, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40, blue 1

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake: 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0011110630421
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake's safety score compare to other products?

Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake?

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 Smiths Cookies And Cream Cake 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.