Caution

Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts

by Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0072470000415 · Krispy Kreme Doughnuts · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0072470000415 · Serving size 4 DOUGHNUTS (52 g)

The verdict

Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts by Krispy Kreme Doughnuts scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 43 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 43-component record, beginning with Doughnut, 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.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 43 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

50/100

Grade C-

Ingredient Safety

85/100

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.

70000415 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 43 ing. REG-PART 33% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 8% LEAD-FLAG BHT PHOTO-FINISH Original glazed doughnuts · ±0 BOOK-OFF …000415 · July 2026

14 of 43 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 70000415 · 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: Original glazed doughnuts · Nearest score peer is Original glazed doughnuts 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.

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

1. Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Powdered Sugar Krispy Jun…85/1002. Original glazed doughnuts: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Original glazed doughnuts85/1003. Chocolate iced glazed doughnuts: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Chocolate iced glazed dou…85/1004. Dipped Cake Doughnuts: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Dipped Cake Doughnuts85/1005. Krispy Kreme: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Krispy Kreme85/100
High-band neighbours for Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts (85/100) outside Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
Chart values as text

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

Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts
85/100
Original glazed doughnuts
85/100
Chocolate iced glazed doughnuts
85/100
Dipped Cake Doughnuts
85/100
Krispy Kreme
85/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts scores 1.1 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts lists 43 ingredients on its label

43 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 43 (92nd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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 85/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 43 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Doughnut
2
Wheat Flour
3
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
4
Reduced Iron
5
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Folic Acid And Enzyme
8
Water
9
Vegetable Shortening
10
Palm Oil
11
Fully Hydrogenated
12
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
13
Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil
14
Cottonseed Oil
15
Soybean Oil
16
Mono And Diglycerides And Polyglycerol Esters
17
BHT
Caution GRAS
18
Tocopherol
19
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
20
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
21
Egg Yolks
22
Soy Flour
23
Natural And Artificial Flavor
24
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
25
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
26
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
27
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
28
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
29
Milk Powder
30
Lecithin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
31
Sodium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
32
Cellulose Gum
33
Monoglycerides
34
Propylene Glycol Monoesters
35
Coating
36
Food Starch-modified
37
Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
38
Soybean
39
Artificial Color
40
Cottonseed Oil
41
Calcium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
42
Corn Starch
43
Artificial Flavor

Full Ingredient List

Doughnut (wheat flour, enriched, wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid and enzyme), water, vegetable shortening (palm oil, fully and/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, and/or partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, cottonseed oil, and/or soybean oil, mono and diglycerides and polyglycerol esters and/or bht and/or tocopherol and/or citric acid), sugar, soybean oil, egg yolks, soy flour, natural and artificial flavor, whey, sodium acid pyrophosphate, dextrose, sodium bicarbonate, salt, dried milk powder, lecithin, sodium propionate (to maintain freshness), cellulose gum, monoglycerides, propylene glycol monoesters); coating (dextrose, food starch-modified, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean and/or cottonseed oil), artificial color, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, calcium propionate (to maintain freshness), corn starch, artificial flavor).

Categories

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High-score cross-brand comparables for Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts

Neighbours outside Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with screening scores in the same high band as Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Krispy Kreme Doughnuts; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 43-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
  • Compare Powdered Sugar Krispy Juniors Doughnuts's 1 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 0072470000415: 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.