Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple

Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple: 3.9/5 ingredient safety

Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.22 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. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple 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, mini donuts, caramel apple sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% 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

3.9
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.9 out of 5
Based on 8 tracked ingredients
8
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
6
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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, unbleached and bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, crunch blend (bleached wheat flour, sugar, yellow corn flour, yeast, salt, soybean oil, caramel color, leavening [sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate], calcium propionate [preservative], extractives of paprika [color]), vegetable oils (palm oil and soybean oil), contains 2% or less of each of the following: soy flour, egg yolks, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), nonfat milk solids, glycerine, corn syrup solids, salt, natural and artificial flavors, dextrose, wheat starch, calcium sulfate, caramel color, soy lecithin, wheat flour, distilled monoglycerides, calcium carbonate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, guar gum, propylene glycol monoester, agar, tapioca dextrin, corn dextrin, titanium dioxide (color), xanthan gum, enzymes, karaya gum, monoglycerides, corn syrup, citric ac

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple: 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0025600091555
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.9/5, Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple sits behind 81% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.9/5 ingredient safety score mean?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Tastykake, mini donuts, caramel apple's mapped ingredients average out to 3.9/5, which is 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.