Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits
by Pillsbury
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0013300000045 · Pillsbury · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits by Pillsbury scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 31-component record, beginning with Enriched Bleached Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour. Niacin. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 31 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0013300000045
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
20/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
25/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
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Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits label screening desk
11 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00000045 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Strawberry Muffin Mix · Nearest score peer is Strawberry Muffin Mix at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits scores 65.9 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 90.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Cooking helpers products
Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits lists 31 ingredients on its label
31 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 1,898 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
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- 36 products (2%)
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- 40 and above
- 135 products (7%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,898 Cooking helpers products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 25/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 31 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR. NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, CANDY BITS (SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (PALM AND PALM KERNEL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SOY LECITHIN, YELLOW 5, RED 40, BLUE 1. CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, YELLOW 6), DEXTROSE, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), BUTTERMILK, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, CANOLA OIL, POTASSIUM BICARBONATE, CALCIUM CARBONATE, CORN STARCH, YELLOW 5, RED 40, IRON, NIACIN, VITAMIN B6, RIBOFLAVIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID, VITAMIN B12.
Other products containing Malted Barley Flour. Niacin
Malted Barley Flour. Niacin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 16 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits
Neighbours outside Pillsbury in the same lower screening band as Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits (25/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Pillsbury; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 31 on 0013300000045).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (31 on 0013300000045).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 31-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix with Candy Bits's 3 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0013300000045: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.