Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate
Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Cakes
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
Sugar, vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, and/or partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil with tbhq and citric acid added to preserve freshness), coconut (prepared with sodium sulfite to maintain color), water, bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate-b1, riboflavin-b2, folic acid), corn syrup, cocoa, high fructose corn syrup, eggs, contains two percent or less of: cocoa processed with alkali, skim milk, food starch - modified, mono and diglycerides, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, coconut oil, corn flour, xanthan gum, nutmeg, cinnamon, peanuts.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600002360
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Tastykake, coconut cakes, dark chocolate's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is 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.