Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding
Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 11 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.6 out of 5, 0.52 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.52 points below 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, cupcakes, banana pudding, 11 of its 11 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, cupcakes, banana pudding sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.6 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
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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, water, enriched unbleached and bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), soybean oil, palm oil, eggs, egg whites, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dextrose, corn syrup, egg yolks, modified cornstarch, high fructose corn syrup, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), mono - and diglycerides, salt, calcium carbonate, cornstarch, calcium sulfate, titanium dioxide (color), sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 80, natural and artificial flavors, polysorbate 60, datem, soy lecithin, sodium stearoyl lactylate, agar, guar gum, colored with extractives of turmeric and annatto seed, sodium hexametaphosphate, monoglycerides, citric acid, cellulose gum, xanthan gum, caramel color, preserved with potassium sorbate, sorbic acid and sodium propionate, topped with vanilla cookie crumbs (wheat flour, sugar, soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, salt, sodium bicarbonate, arti
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding: 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: 3.6/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 11.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600091623
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding's 3.6/5 average puts it in the lower 87%, 0.52 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.6/5 rating on Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Tastykake, cupcakes, banana pudding's 3.6/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.