Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells
by Del's Pastry Ltd.
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0068065660010 · Del's Pastry Ltd. · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells by Del's Pastry Ltd. scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 42 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 42-component record, beginning with Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 42 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
38/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
65660010 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells label screening desk
19 of 42 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 65660010 · 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: Apple Penguin · Nearest score peer is Apple Penguin 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.
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 is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
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. Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells scores 40.9 points below that category average (50/100 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
Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells lists 42 ingredients on its label
42 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 36 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 95 products (5%)
- 4–6
- 146 products (8%)
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- 252 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 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%)
- 18–20
- 107 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 84 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (4%)
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- 58 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 47 products (2%)
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- 51 products (3%)
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- 42 products (2%)
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- 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 42 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Enriched bleached wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable oil (soybean oil or canola oil), vegetable shortening (palm oil, modified palm oil), egg, whey, leavening (baking powder, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate monohydrate, calcium sulphate), salt, soy lecithin, sorbitan monostearate, mono & diglycerides, xanthan gum, guar gum, locust bean gum, propionic acid (preservative), monosodium salts of phosphorylated mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, dimethylpolysiloxane, artificial flavor, color (yellow 5, yellow 6), citric acid, sodium benzoate (preservative).
Other products containing Monocalcium Phosphate Monohydrate
Monocalcium Phosphate Monohydrate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 90 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells
Neighbours outside Del's Pastry Ltd. near Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells's mid-band score (50/100). No other Del's Pastry Ltd. products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 42 on 0068065660010).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (42 on 0068065660010).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 42-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Del's Pastry Ltd., Dessert Shells'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 0068065660010: 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.