Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry
Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 12 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 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 0.32 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
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. 12 of 12 ingredients tracked for Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry 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, cupcakes, strawberry sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
- 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
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 12.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600091630
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry rank on ingredient safety?
Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry's 3.8/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.8/5 average places Tastykake, cupcakes, strawberry in the Low Risk tier.
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