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Harvest cake bites

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0023204382161 · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0023204382161 · Serving size 1 PIECE (23 g)

The verdict

Harvest cake bites scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 83 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 83-component record, beginning with Sugar, Water, Fully Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 83 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

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

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.

04382161 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Harvest cake bites label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 83 ing. REG-SPARSE 23% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 0% LEAD-FLAG Invert Sugar PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …382161 · July 2026

19 of 83 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Invert Sugar). Source sheet 04382161 · 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

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

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.

The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Harvest cake bites scores 8.9 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Harvest cake bites lists 83 ingredients on its label

83 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 83 (100th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 83 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Water
3
Fully Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil
4
Margarine
5
Interesterified Soybean Oil
6
Buttermilk
7
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
8
Mono And Diglycerides
9
Vitamin A Palmitate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
10
Beta Carotene
11
Color
12
Non-hydrogenated Soybean Oil
13
Organic Pumpkin
14
Butter
15
Bleached Wheat Flour
16
Malted Barley Flour
17
Non-hydrogenated Palm Oil
18
Dried Cream Cheese
19
Pasteurized Cultured Milk
20
Cream
21
Carob Gum
22
Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour
23
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
24
Reduced Iron
25
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
26
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
27
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
28
Eggs
29
Cocoa Processed With Alkali
30
Reduced Mineral Whey
31
Milk
32
Nonfat Milk Derived Solids
33
Whey Powder
34
Invert Sugar
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER
Cut Back GRAS
35
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
36
Modified Food Starch
37
Natural Chocolate
38
Chocolate Liquor
39
Cocoa Butter
40
Whole Milk Powder
41
Milkfat
42
Soy Lecithin
43
Emulsifier
44
Vanillin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
45
Carrots
46
Soy Lecithin
47
Propylene Glycol Mono - And Diesters Of Fatty Acids
48
Sorbitan Monostearate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
Safe Approved
49
Polysorbate 60 And Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate
50
Emulsifiers
51
Cornstarch
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
52
Leavening
53
Baking Soda
54
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
55
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
56
Monocalcium Phosphate And Sodium Bicarbonate
57
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
58
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
59
Glycerine
60
Xanthan
61
Guar
62
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe
63
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe
64
Acacia Gum And Carbohydrate Gums
65
Spices
66
Natural Flavor
67
Potassium Sorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
Safe GRAS
68
Sodium Benzoate And Sulfites Added As Preservatives
69
Non-hydrogenated Coconut Oil
70
Artificial Flavor
71
Non-hydrogenated Canola Oil
72
Soy Flour
73
Artificial Color Including Red #40
74
Yellow #5 Lake
75
Yellow #6 Lake
76
Blue #2 Lake
77
Blue #1 Lake And Red #40 Lake
78
Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil
79
Confectioner's Glaze
80
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
81
Sodium Citrate
82
Annatto Color
83
Sodium Glycolate

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, water, fully hydrogenated palm kernel oil, margarine (interesterified soybean oil, buttermilk, salt, mono and diglycerides, vitamin a palmitate, beta carotene [color]), non-hydrogenated soybean oil, pumpkin, butter, bleached wheat flour (malted barley flour), non-hydrogenated palm oil, cream cheese (pasteurized cultured milk, cream, salt, carob gum), enriched bleached wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), eggs, cocoa processed with alkali, reduced mineral whey, milk, nonfat milk derived solids, whey powder, invert sugar, dextrose, modified food starch, chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, milkfat, soy lecithin [an emulsifier], vanillin [an artificial flavor]), salt, carrots, with soy lecithin, propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fatty acids, sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60 and sodium stearoyl lactylate (emulsifiers), cornstarch, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate and sodium bicarbonate), whey, caramel color, glycerine, with xanthan, guar, cellulose, modified cellulose, acacia gum and carbohydrate gums, spices, natural flavor, with potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate and sulfites added as preservatives, non-hydrogenated coconut oil, chocolate liquor, artificial flavor, non-hydrogenated canola oil, soy flour, artificial color including red #40, yellow #5 lake, yellow #6 lake, blue #2 lake, blue #1 lake and red #40 lake, fully hydrogenated palm oil, confectioner's glaze, corn syrup, sodium citrate, annatto color, sodium glycolate.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Invert Sugar is the first flagged ingredient selected from Harvest cake bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 83-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Invert Sugar. Open Invert Sugar
  • Compare Harvest cake bites's 1 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 0023204382161: 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.