Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle
Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle by Tastykake, Tasty Baking Company has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with 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 in line with 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, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle 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). 5 of its 5 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, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
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, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegitable shorening (soybean oil, palm oil, and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), nonfat milk, corn syrup, egg yolks, whey (milk), high fructose corn syrup, orange puree (orange pulp cells, water, orage juice concentrate, orange peel, orange oil), eggs, contains 2% or less of each of the following: corn starch, dextrose, modified corn starch, soy protien, soy lecithin, glycerine, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, polysorbaie 60, natural and artificial flavors, liquid sucrose, xanthan gum, mono-and diglycerides, sorbitan monostearate, distilled monoglycerides, butter (made from milk), monoglycerides, calcium sulfate, propylene glycol, nutmeg, fd&c yellow #6 aluminum lake, agar, lactic acid, preserved with sodium propionate, sorbic acid and benzoic acid.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0025600089811
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle's safety score compare to other products?
Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle?
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 4/5 average places Tastykake, sponge cakes krimpets, orange creamsicle 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.