Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Fillet With Creamy Fudge, Topped With Rich Peanut Butter Icing And Chocolate
Contains 5 flagged ingredients
Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Fillet With Creamy Fudge, Topped With Rich Peanut Butter Icing And Chocolate by Dawn Food Products Inc. receives a safety score of 25/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 5 ingredients that have been flagged for potential safety concerns by regulatory or consumer advocacy databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Fillet With Creamy Fudge, Topped With Rich Peanut Butter Icing And Chocolate by Dawn Food Products Inc. carries a composite safety score of 25/100, which we classify as "Avoid" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan identified 5 flagged ingredients in this product — components that at least one official source has classified as requiring caution, targeted avoidance, or further evaluation. Flagged ingredients are the items most likely to surface in FDA inspection findings, state-level ingredient bans, or outbreak-related recall notices, so the per-ingredient breakdown below is the most useful lens for anyone screening this product for a specific dietary concern.
On the NOVA processing scale, Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Fillet With Creamy Fudge, Topped With Rich Peanut Butter Icing And Chocolate is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone. The Nutri-Score grade of E reflects nutritional balance — calories, saturated fat, sugar, sodium versus fiber, protein, and produce content — which again is a distinct dimension from additive safety and worth weighing alongside the scores above.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 25/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 5 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | E | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, powdered sugar, whole eggs, enriched wheat flour bleached (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), soybean oil, water, palm oil, margarine (palm oil, water, soybean oil, salt, mono & diglycerides, colored with annatto, calcium disodium edta added as preservative, artificial flavor, vitamin a palmitate added), peanut butter (peanuts, dextrose, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil [rapeseed and/or cottonseed oil], salt), corn syrup, canola oil, cocoa processed with alkali, invert sugar, chocolate flakes (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, whole milk, milkfat, natural flavor), sunflower oil, food starch-modified, egg yolk, chocolate liquor, nonfat milk, mono & diglycerides, glycerin, egg whites, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate), propylene glycol mono & diesters of fatty acids, glyceryl-lacto esters of fatty acids, sodium propionate and potassium sorbate and sorbic acid and sodium benzoate (preservatives), corn starch, polysorbate 60, dextrose, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, polysorbate 80, soy lecithin, sorbitol, caramel color, natural and artificial flavors, titanium dioxide (color), datem, citric acid, soy flour, lactic acid, agar, propylene glycol, yellow 5, yellow 6, xanthan gum, carboxymethyl cellulose, alpha tocopherols (preservative).
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Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.