Cake Base
Cake Base appears in 114 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 Base appears in 114 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.
- 114
- catalogued products
- #2,861
- usage rank of 247,206
- 31
- named brands represented
- 6%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 56 of 114 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Atlanta Bread, Tea Cake, Lemon; Baristas' Favorite Decadent Butter Bar; Beer cake mix to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cake Base itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
56 of 114 linked records have some flagged component
All 114 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Cake Base: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,861 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,861
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 18 others that also appear in exactly 114 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 6%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 114 products listing it (mean slot 4.0). Cake Base usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Base
Across the 114 products on this site that list Cake Base, 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 26.9x more often with Cake Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cake Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 43 | 37.7% | 1.4% |
| Red 40 | 24 | 21.1% | 5.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 21 | 18.4% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 19 | 16.7% | 4.8% |
| Carrageenan | 18 | 15.8% | 4.5% |
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 Base
Products Containing Cake Base
16 busy labels from the 114 indexed products that list Cake Base:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Arrowroot Powder”)
High-volume peers for Cake Base: 114 products, mean screening score 77.9/100. Nearest count peers include “Arrowroot Powder”, “Organic Baby Kale”, “Blue”. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Cake Base page
Start from Cake Base's 114 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Cake Base before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Cake Base next to “Organic Baby Kale” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Cake Base — common follow-ups
Does Cake Base carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Cake Base. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cake Base? ▼
Cake Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,861 of 247,206), appearing in 114 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cake Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cake Base appears in 114 products (#2,861 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cake Base). 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.