Avoid

Magic Shell Cupcake

by Smucker's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051500101902 · Smucker's · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0051500101902 · Serving size 2 Tbsp (36 g)

The verdict

Magic Shell Cupcake by Smucker's scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 15 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 15-component label led by Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil; 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 15 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

8/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

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.

00101902 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Magic Shell Cupcake label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 4 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 15 ing. REG-PART 47% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 45% LEAD-FLAG Red 3 PHOTO-FINISH Stars & Stripes · ±0 BOOK-OFF …101902 · July 2026

7 of 15 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 00101902 · 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: Stars & Stripes Funfetti, Buttermilk · Nearest score peer is Stars & Stripes Funfetti, Buttermilk 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.

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.

A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Magic Shell Cupcake: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Magic Shell Cupcake0/1002. Stars & Stripes Funfetti, Buttermilk: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Stars & Stripes Funfetti,…0/1003. Cott, Bubbling Cauldron Soda, Orange: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Cott, Bubbling Cauldron S…0/1004. Soda: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Soda0/1005. Tropical orange: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Tropical orange0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Magic Shell Cupcake (0/100 on 15 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Magic Shell Cupcake
0/100
Stars & Stripes Funfetti, Buttermilk
0/100
Cott, Bubbling Cauldron Soda, Orange
0/100
Soda
0/100
Tropical orange
0/100

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. Magic Shell Cupcake scores 90.9 points below that category average (0/100 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

Magic Shell Cupcake lists 15 ingredients on its label

15 55th percentile a longer ingredient list than 55% of the 1,898 products we track

0–2: 36 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 95 products (5%). Below this entry. 4–6: 146 products (8%). Below this entry. 6–8: 252 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 178 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 121 products (6%). Below this entry. 12–14: 148 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 124 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. 16–18: 111 products (6%). Above this entry. 18–20: 107 products (6%). Above this entry. 20–22: 84 products (4%). Above this entry. 22–24: 74 products (4%). Above this entry. 24–26: 58 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 47 products (2%). Above this entry. 28–30: 51 products (3%). Above this entry. 30–32: 42 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 30 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 27 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 19 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 13 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 135 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Cooking helpers 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

1,898 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 15 (55th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
36 products (2%)
2–4
95 products (5%)
4–6
146 products (8%)
6–8
252 products (13%)
8–10
178 products (9%)
10–12
121 products (6%)
12–14
148 products (8%)
14–16
124 products (7%)
16–18
111 products (6%)
18–20
107 products (6%)
20–22
84 products (4%)
22–24
74 products (4%)
24–26
58 products (3%)
26–28
47 products (2%)
28–30
51 products (3%)
30–32
42 products (2%)
32–34
30 products (2%)
34–36
27 products (1%)
36–38
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.

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, Milk, Nonfat Milk, Reduced Mineral Whey (From Milk), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Soy Lecithin, Gum Arabic, Blue 1, Yellow 5, Red 40, Red 3, Salt.

Categories

Cooking helpers Toppings

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Magic Shell Cupcake

Neighbours outside Smucker's in the same lower screening band as Magic Shell Cupcake (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Smucker's; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Magic Shell Cupcake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 15-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
  • Compare Magic Shell Cupcake'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 0051500101902: 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.