Tastykake, cream filled sweetie kakes with icing and heart sprinkles, chocolate
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Product Insight: 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 is tracked in PlainIngredients with 5 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is E, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 4 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600002025
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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