Star Crunch
Star Crunch by Little Debbie has 11 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with 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 in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Biscuits
How This Score Is Built
Star Crunch 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). 11 of its 11 tracked ingredients are 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 Star Crunch 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
- 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, corn syrup, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, whey, salt, barley malt, wheat flour, dextrose), palm and palm kernel oil, whole grain oats, palm and soybean oils with tbhq and citric acid to protect flavor, dextrose, water, whey, contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, cocoa processed with alkali, raisins, molasses, salt, colors (caramel color, red 40, titanium dioxide, annatto extract, beta carotene, yellow 5, turmeric, blue 1, yellow 6 lake, blue 2 lake), leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate), soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, mono - and diglycerides, eggs, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, glycerin, potassium sorbate and sorbic acid and calcium propionate (to preserve freshness), citric acid, pectin, egg whites, sodium citrate, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Star Crunch: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 11.
Product Details
- Brand
- Little Debbie
- Barcode
- 0024300041143
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Star Crunch's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Star Crunch 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.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 Star Crunch 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.