Cake
Cake appears in 96 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Cake appears in 96 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 96
- catalogued products
- #3,214
- usage rank of 247,206
- 26
- named brands represented
- 9%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
65.6% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Cake as the trigger. Open records such as 8in german chocolate cake; Bauli, Oven Baked Cake; Big Fig Bars Mission Fig and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 60.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 9% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
65.6% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 92 of 96 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Cake sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,214 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,214
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 96 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 9%
- Averaged label depth puts Cake near the top of the captured list (9% of list length, mean slot 4.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Cake
Across the 96 products on this site that list Cake, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 45.4x more often with Cake than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cake products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 61 | 63.5% | 1.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 48 | 50% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 41 | 42.7% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 32 | 33.3% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 28 | 29.2% | 3.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cake
Products Containing Cake
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 96 indexed products containing Cake:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate”)
High-volume peers for Cake: 96 products, mean screening score 60.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate · Annatto Coloring · Organic Chard. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Cake record
Use the 96-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cake to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Cake next to “Annatto Coloring” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Cake
How should I read safety signals when Cake sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
65.6% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Cake is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cake? ▼
Cake ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,214 of 247,206), appearing in 96 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cake so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cake appears in 96 products (#3,214 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cake). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.