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Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix

Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix: 4/5 ingredient safety

Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix by Spartan has 1 tracked ingredient, 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

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How This Score Is Built

Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix 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 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
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 (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cocoa (processed with alkali), dextrose, vegetable shortening (contains one or more of the following: palm and/or soybean oil) with emulsifier (propylyene glycol mono - and diesters, mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin), modified corn starch, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), contains 2% or less of: salt, cellulose gum, guar gum, artificial flavor, preservative (bht, citric acid).

Product Details

Brand
Spartan
Barcode
0011213164014
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix's 4/5 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 4/5 average places Spartan, devil's food deluxe moist cake mix 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.