Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate
by Cake Boss
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0029519217662 · Cake Boss · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate by Cake Boss scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 25 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 25-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Palm Oil, Sunflower 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 25 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.
19217662 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate label screening desk
10 of 25 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 19217662 · 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: Dawn Food Products, Filled & Decorated Mini Bundt Cake, Chocolate Chip · Nearest score peer is Dawn Food Products, Filled & Decorated Mini Bundt Cake, Chocolate Chip at the same screening score.
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.
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 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate scores 29.8 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 65.2/100), 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 Baking-decorations products
Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate lists 25 ingredients on its label
25 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 2,313 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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- 13 products (1%)
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- 46 products (2%)
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- 171 products (7%)
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- 40 and above
- 8 products (0%)
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 2,313 Baking-decorations 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 25 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, palm oil, sunflower oil, water, cocoa processed with alkali, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, invert sugar, soybean oil, corn starch, caramel color, mono & diglycerides, propylene glycol, salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, potassium sorbate and sorbic acid (as preservatives), methyl-cellulose gum, polysorbate 60, poly-glycerol esters of fatty acids, sorbitol, chocolate liquor, datem, citric acid, dextrose.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate
Neighbours outside Cake Boss with screening scores in the same high band as Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Cake Boss; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 25 on 0029519217662).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (25 on 0029519217662).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 25-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Cake boss, frosting, whole lotta chocolate'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 0029519217662: 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.