Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla
Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla by Food Lion 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.
- 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
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. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla 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 Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla 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
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, Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Flour, Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Margarine (Palm Oil, Water, Soy), Oil, Salt, Contains Less Than 2% Of Vegetable Mono - And Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate [Preservative], Citric Acid, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Beta Carotene Color, Vitamin A Palmitate, Whey), Food Starch-Modified, Corn Syrup Solids, Whey, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Powdered Cellulose, Distilled Monoglycerides, Salt, Emulsifier Blend (Propylene Glycol Ester Of Fatty Acids, Monoand Diglycerides And Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate), Sodium Propionate (Preservative), Guar Gum, Soy Flour, Wheat Flour, Cellulose Gum, Soy Lecithin, Beta Carotene Color, Natural And Artificial Flavor.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla: 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
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826110725
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Vanilla Flavor Pound Cake, Vanilla's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.