Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate
Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.28 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
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 Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate, 5 of its 5 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 Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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
Cake & icing: sugar, water, vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and/or hydrogenated cottonseed oil with tbhq and citric acid added to preserve freshness), bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate-b1, riboflavin-b2, folic acid), eggs, high fructose corn syrup, cocoa, food starch-modified, skim milk, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), corn syrup, dextrose, cornstarch, mono & diglycerides, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sorbic acid (to preserve freshness), whey (milk), fd&c red #40 lake, propylene glycol monostearate, butter, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, polysorbate 60, potassium sorbate (to preserve freshness), agar, nutmeg. topping: sugar, rice flour, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and/or soybean oil), cornstarch, gum arabic, cellulose gum, confectioners glaze, carrageen
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600002025
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate's 4.4/5 average puts it in the safer 69%, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate's mapped ingredients average out to 4.4/5, 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.