Cake mate, pink icing
by Cake Mate
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052100048307 · Cake Mate · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cake mate, pink icing by Cake Mate scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Soybean. 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 18 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0052100048307
- 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
37/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
00048307 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cake mate, pink icing label screening desk
10 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 00048307 · 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: Berry Colossal Crunch, Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal With Marshmallows · Nearest score peer is Berry Colossal Crunch, Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal With Marshmallows 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.
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.
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
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. Cake mate, pink icing scores 15.2 points below that category average (50/100 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
Cake mate, pink icing lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% 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
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- 13 products (1%)
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- 46 products (2%)
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- 171 products (7%)
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- 322 products (14%)
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- 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean, cottonseed), water, corn syrup, modified cornstarch, salt, cornstarch, salt, cornstarch, mono-and diglycerides, natural & artificial flavor, potassium sorbate (preservative), polysorbate 60, citric acid, soy lecithin, red 3, red 40 lake.
Categories
More from Cake Mate
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Cake mate, pink icing
Neighbours outside Cake Mate near Cake mate, pink icing's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Cake Mate; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 18 on 0052100048307).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0052100048307).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cake mate, pink icing's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
- Compare Cake mate, pink icing'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 0052100048307: 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.