Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit
by Wilton
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070896807021 · Wilton · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit by Wilton scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 45 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 45-component record, beginning with Enriched Wheat Flour, 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 45 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.
96807021 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit label screening desk
15 of 45 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 96807021 · 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: Decorating Kit · Nearest score peer is Decorating Kit 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.
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 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit 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
Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit lists 45 ingredients on its label
45 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product 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 45 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cookie crumbs: enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, fungal-amylase, ascorbic acid, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), confectioners' sugar (sugar, corn starch), vegetable shortening (hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil), water, cocoa powder, invert sugar syrup, whey powder (milk), leavening (baking soda), salt, artificial flavor, soy lecithin. icing: sugar, water, vegetable shortening (hydrogenated soybean oil, modified palm oil, hydrogenated modified palm oil, mono and diglycerides), corn syrup, corn starch, food starch-modified (corn), salt, mono and diglycerides, fd&c yellow #5, fd&c yellow #6, fd&c red #40, fd&c blue #1, artificial flavor, polysorbate 60, potassium sorbate (preservative), citric acid. dark cocoa candy melts candy: sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder processed with alkali, soy lecithin, reduced mineral whey powder (milk), salt. candy cane candy melts candy: sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, reduced mineral whey powder, whole milk solids, nonfat dry milk solids, soy lecithin, gum arabic, salt, peppermint oil, artificial flavor, fd&c red #40.
Other products containing Fungal-amylase
Fungal-amylase is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 35 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit
Neighbours outside Wilton in the same lower screening band as Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Wilton; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 45 on 0070896807021).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (45 on 0070896807021).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 45-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Dark Cocoa Peppermint Pops Kit'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 0070896807021: 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.