It's A Party Icing, Pink
by Best Brands
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0042887940031 · Best Brands · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
It's A Party Icing, Pink by Best Brands scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Sugar, Water Glucose Syrup, Modified Starch Artificial Flavor; 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 9 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
13/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
87940031 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
It's A Party Icing, Pink label screening desk
5 of 9 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 87940031 · 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: Icing Royal Blue · Nearest score peer is Icing Royal Blue 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. It's A Party Icing, Pink scores 65.2 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 65.2/100), 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 Baking-decorations products
It's A Party Icing, Pink lists 9 ingredients on its label
9 30th percentile a longer ingredient list than 30% 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
- 0–2
- 13 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 46 products (2%)
- 4–6
- 171 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 322 products (14%)
- 8–10
- 264 products (11%)
- 10–12
- 335 products (14%)
- 12–14
- 253 products (11%)
- 14–16
- 201 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 186 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 161 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 106 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 78 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 69 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 41 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 28 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 13 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 8 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 3 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 3 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 4 products (0%)
- 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 9 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, water glucose syrup, modified starch artificial flavor, carrageenan citric acid potassium sorbate, titanium dioxide artificial colors (fd&c red 40, fd&c yellow 5, fd&c red 3, fd&c blue 1).
Categories
More from Best Brands
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for It's A Party Icing, Pink
Neighbours outside Best Brands in the same lower screening band as It's A Party Icing, Pink (0/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Best Brands; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score: 44% of this label's ingredients carry a caution flag.
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (9 on 0042887940031).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from It's A Party Icing, Pink's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 9-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
- Compare It's A Party Icing, Pink'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 0042887940031: 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.