Red velvet sweet treats
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742248332 · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Red velvet sweet treats scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 69 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 69-component record, beginning with Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 69 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
48/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
70/100
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.
42248332 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Red velvet sweet treats label screening desk
24 of 69 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 42248332 · 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
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.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Red velvet sweet treats scores 22.9 points below that category average (70/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Desserts products
Red velvet sweet treats lists 69 ingredients on its label
69 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
- 6–8
- 461 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 1,026 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
- 24–26
- 590 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 542 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 439 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 422 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 346 products (3%)
- 34–36
- 312 products (3%)
- 36–38
- 249 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 211 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 754 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 11,156 Desserts 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 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 69 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, unsalted butter (pasteurized cream), corn syrup, liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, nonfat dry milk, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cultures, salt, xanthan gum and/or guar gum and/or locust bean gum), margarine (palm oil, water, soybean oil, salt, mono and diglycerides, whey solids [a milk derivative], soy lecithin, to preserve freshness [sodium benzoate], natural flavor, vitamin a palmitate added), high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% or less of: butter (cream, salt), cinnamon, cocoa powder, yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid), cream, salt, corn syrup solids, red food color (fd&c red no. 40, citric acid, sodium benzoate, water), potassium sorbate (preservative), skim milk powder, soybean oil, oat fiber, wheat flour, xanthan gum, beta carotene (color), artificial flavor, guar gum, lactic acid, cellulose gum, artificial color (yellow #5), modified cornstarch, molasses, calcium sulfate, soy lecithin, sodium stearoyl lactylate, monoglycerides, vegetable mono and diglycerides, sodium alginate, mono and diglycerides, sodium bicarbonate, enzymes, natural and artificial flavor, sodium benzoate (preservative), citric acid, yeast, caramel color, vitamin a palmitate, calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor).
Other products containing Red Food Color
Red Food Color is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Red velvet sweet treats's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 69-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Red velvet sweet treats'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 0078742248332: 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.