Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry
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Product Insight: Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry
Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company is tracked in PlainIngredients with 12 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 3.8 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, 2 ingredients are currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 9 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
- Sorbitan Monostearate — Safety score: 2/5
- Titanium Dioxide — 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, water, enriched unbleached and bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, soybean oil, strawberry flakes (vegetable oil [palm, palm kernal], inulin, wheat flour, corn starch, malic acid, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, tricalcium phosphate, sodium citrate, caramel color, red 40 lake, blue 2 lake), egg whites, contains 2% or less of each of the following: eggs, dextrose, corn syrup, cornstarch, modified cornstarch, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), high fructose corn syrup, mono - and diglycerides, salt, calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, titanium dioxide (color), sorbitan monostearate, natural and artificial flavors, polysorbate 60, datem, sodium stearoyl lactylate, agar, vegetable oil, guar gum, sodium hexametaphosphate, cellulose gum, soy lecithin, sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, xanthan gum, caramel color, preserved with potassium sorba
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
- 0025600091630
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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