Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime
Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.18 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
Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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
Confectionery coating (sugar, palm kernel and palm oil, nonfat dry milk, titanium dioxide [color], soy lecithin), sugar, nonfat milk, vegetable shortening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whole wheat flour, corn syrup, eggs, contains 2% or less of each of the following: high fructose corn syrup, water, corn starch, egg yolks, glycerine, molasses, modified corn starch, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, butter (made from milk), soy lecithin, caramel color, key lime concentrate, mono - and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavor (contains milk ingredients), distilled monoglycerides, lime pulp cells, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, xanthan gum, lactylic esters of fatty acids, calcium sulfate, lime oil, cinnamon, nutmeg, fd&c blue #1, fd&c yellow #5, lactic acid, sorbic acid
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime: 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
- Eckrich, 4 Pepper Smoked Sausage Δ 0 additives · Armour-Eckrich Meats Llc 4additives · 2.5/5
- Smoked Sausage Δ 0 additives 4additives · 2.5/5
- Caffeine free fruit punch artificially flavored soda, fruit punch Δ 0 additives · Food Club, Topco Associates Inc. 4additives · 2.8/5
- Canadian Bacon Δ 0 additives · Black Forest, Land O'Frost Inc. 4additives · 2.8/5
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600091395
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
Find Products
Frequently asked questions
Is Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.3/5, Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime sits ahead of 62% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime's 4.3/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Tastykake, kandy kakes, key lime's 4.3/5 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.