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Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut

by Betty Crocker

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000487550 · Betty Crocker · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0016000487550 · Serving size 2 Tbsp (33 g)

The verdict

Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut by Betty Crocker scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 27 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 27-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Corn Starch, Palm Oil. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

0/100
Avoid safety score
4
Many flagged · of 27 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

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

8/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

00487550 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 4 flagged LEN-LAYERED 27 ing. REG-PART 41% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 18% LEAD-FLAG Red 3 PHOTO-FINISH Mix jalapeno cheddar · ±0 BOOK-OFF …487550 · July 2026

11 of 27 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 00487550 · 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: Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix · Nearest score peer is Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack 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.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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

1. Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Frosting With Rainbow Spr…0/1002. Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Mix jalapeno cheddar spic…0/1003. Barre Lucky Charms Treats King Size: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Barre Lucky Charms Treats…0/1004. Lucky Charms Treats: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Lucky Charms Treats0/1005. Cinnamon Toast Crunch TREATS: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Cinnamon Toast Crunch TRE…0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut (0/100 on 27 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut
0/100
Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix
0/100
Barre Lucky Charms Treats King Size
0/100
Lucky Charms Treats
0/100
Cinnamon Toast Crunch TREATS
0/100

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. Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut scores 90.9 points below that category average (0/100 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

Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut lists 27 ingredients on its label

27 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 1,898 products we track

0–2: 36 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 95 products (5%). Below this entry. 4–6: 146 products (8%). Below this entry. 6–8: 252 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 178 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 121 products (6%). Below this entry. 12–14: 148 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 124 products (7%). Below this entry. 16–18: 111 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 107 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 84 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 74 products (4%). Below this entry. 24–26: 58 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 47 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 51 products (3%). Above this entry. 30–32: 42 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 30 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 27 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 19 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 13 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 135 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Cooking helpers product, bucketed by value

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

1,898 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 27 (82nd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
36 products (2%)
2–4
95 products (5%)
4–6
146 products (8%)
6–8
252 products (13%)
8–10
178 products (9%)
10–12
121 products (6%)
12–14
148 products (8%)
14–16
124 products (7%)
16–18
111 products (6%)
18–20
107 products (6%)
20–22
84 products (4%)
22–24
74 products (4%)
24–26
58 products (3%)
26–28
47 products (2%)
28–30
51 products (3%)
30–32
42 products (2%)
32–34
30 products (2%)
34–36
27 products (1%)
36–38
19 products (1%)
38–40
13 products (1%)
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 0/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 27 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Corn Starch
3
Palm Oil
4
Water
5
High Maltose Corn Syrup
6
Canola Oil
7
Vegetable Oil
8
Palm And Palm Kernel
9
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
10
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
11
Distilled Monoglycerides
12
Color
13
Red 40
Avoid Approved (certified color)
14
Yellow 5&6 Lake
15
Blue 1
Caution Approved (certified color)
16
Red 40
Avoid Approved (certified color)
17
Red 3
Avoid FDA food listing remains in effect until Jan 15, 2027; revocation scheduled
18
Blues 1&2 And Other Color Added
19
Polysorbate 60
BOILER WATER ADDITIVE, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Caution Approved
20
Sodium stearoyl lactylate
Other
Safe
21
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
22
Natural And Artificial Flavor
23
Dextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Safe GRAS
24
Soy Lecithin
25
Confectioner's Glaze
26
Carnauba Wax
27
Citric Acid. Freshness Preserved By Potassium Sorbate

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, Corn Starch, Palm Oil, Water, High Maltose Corn Syrup, Canola Oil. Contains 2% Or Less Of: Vegetable Oil (Palm And Palm Kernel), Salt, Maltodextrin, Distilled Monoglycerides, Color (Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5&6 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Red 40, Red 3, Blues 1&2 And Other Color Added), Polysorbate 60, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Dextrin, Soy Lecithin, Confectioner'S Glaze, Carnauba Wax, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid. Freshness Preserved By Potassium Sorbate.

Other products containing Citric Acid. Freshness Preserved By Potassium Sorbate

Citric Acid. Freshness Preserved By Potassium Sorbate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Cooking helpers Toppings

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut

Neighbours outside Betty Crocker in the same lower screening band as Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Betty Crocker; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 27-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
  • Compare Frosting With Rainbow Sprinkles, Glazed Donut's 4 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 0016000487550: 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.