Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping
by Duncan Hines
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041255836129 · Duncan Hines · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping by Duncan Hines scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 8 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 8-component label led by Water, Cherries, Food Starch-modified; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 8 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
60/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
55836129 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping label screening desk
4 of 8 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sucralose). Source sheet 55836129 · 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: Kroger, starlight mints candies, peppermint · Nearest score peer is Kroger, starlight mints candies, peppermint at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
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. Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping scores 30.9 points below that category average (60/100 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
Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping lists 8 ingredients on its label
8 28th percentile a longer ingredient list than 28% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 36 products (2%)
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- 95 products (5%)
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- 146 products (8%)
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- 252 products (13%)
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- 178 products (9%)
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- 121 products (6%)
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- 148 products (8%)
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- 124 products (7%)
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- 111 products (6%)
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- 107 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 84 products (4%)
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- 74 products (4%)
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- 58 products (3%)
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- 47 products (2%)
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- 51 products (3%)
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- 42 products (2%)
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- 27 products (1%)
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- 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 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 8 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, cherries, food starch-modified, sucralose, citric acid, erythorbic acid, (to promote color retention), artificial color (red 40).
Other products containing Erythorbic Acid
Erythorbic Acid is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 374 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping
Neighbours outside Duncan Hines near Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Duncan Hines; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 8 on 0041255836129).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (8 on 0041255836129).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sucralose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 8-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sucralose. Open Sucralose
- Compare Duncan hines, comstock, cherry pie filling & topping's 2 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 0041255836129: 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.