Avoid

Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits

by Hungry Jack

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051500928707 · Hungry Jack · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0051500928707 · Serving size 1/3 cup (54 g)

The verdict

Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits by Hungry Jack scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 29-component label is layered, beginning with Rice Flour, Sugar, Dextrose. 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.

0/100
Avoid safety score
4
Many flagged · of 29 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0051500928707
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

3/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

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.

00928707 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 4 flagged LEN-LAYERED 29 ing. REG-PART 45% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 15% LEAD-FLAG Yellow 6 PHOTO-FINISH Pillsbury, Funfetti, Premium · ±0 BOOK-OFF …928707 · July 2026

13 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00928707 · 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: Pillsbury, Funfetti, Premium Sugar Cookie Mix With Candy Bits · Nearest score peer is Pillsbury, Funfetti, Premium Sugar Cookie Mix With Candy Bits 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.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

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

1. Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Buttermilk Pancake & Waff…0/1002. Pillsbury, Funfetti, Premium Sugar Cookie Mix With Candy Bits: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Pillsbury, Funfetti, Prem…0/1003. Funfetti Gluten Free Cake & Cupcake Mix: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Funfetti Gluten Free Cake…0/1004. Glazed Chocolate Lil' Donut Kit, Chocolate Donut Mix, Vanilla Glaze Mix, Candy Bits: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Glazed Chocolate Lil' Don…0/1005. Pillsbury, Funfetti, Vanilla Glazed Lil' Donut Kit: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Pillsbury, Funfetti, Vani…0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits (0/100 on 29 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits
0/100
Pillsbury, Funfetti, Premium Sugar Cookie Mix With Candy Bits
0/100
Funfetti Gluten Free Cake & Cupcake Mix
0/100
Glazed Chocolate Lil' Donut Kit, Chocolate Donut Mix, Vanilla Glaze Mix, Candy Bits
0/100
Pillsbury, Funfetti, Vanilla Glazed Lil' Donut Kit
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. Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits 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

Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits lists 29 ingredients on its label

29 85th percentile a longer ingredient list than 85% 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%). Below this entry. 16–18: 111 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 107 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 84 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 74 products (4%). Below this entry. 24–26: 58 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 47 products (2%). Below this entry. 28–30: 51 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 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: 29 (85th 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.

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 29 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Rice Flour
2
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
4
Leavening
5
Baking Soda
6
Calcium Phosphate
7
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
8
Candy Bits
9
Vegetable Oil
10
Palm And Palm Kernel
11
Corn Starch
12
Confectioner's Glaze
13
Soy Lecithin
14
Yellow 5
Avoid Approved (certified color)
15
Red 40
Avoid Approved (certified color)
16
Blue 1
Caution Approved (certified color)
17
Yellow 6
Avoid Approved (certified color)
18
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
19
Pea Fiber
20
Buttermilk
21
Tapioca Starch
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
22
Canola Oil
23
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
24
Potassium Bicarbonate
FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
25
Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
26
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
27
Calcium Carbonate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
28
Artificial Flavor
29
Cellulose Gum

Full Ingredient List

Rice Flour, Sugar, Dextrose, Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Candy Bits (Sugar, Vegetable Oil [Palm And Palm Kernel], Modified Corn Starch, Confectioner'S Glaze, Soy Lecithin, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 6), Potato Starch, Pea Fiber, Buttermilk, Tapioca Starch, Canola Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Potassium Bicarbonate, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Carbonate, Artificial Flavor, Cellulose Gum, Yellow 5, Red 40.

Categories

Cooking helpers Baking Mixes Dessert mixes Pastry helpers Cake mixes

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits

Neighbours outside Hungry Jack in the same lower screening band as Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hungry Jack; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 29-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
  • Compare Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix With Candy Bits'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 0051500928707: 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.