Cupcakes
Contains 10 flagged ingredients
Cupcakes receives a safety score of 0/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 10 ingredients that have been flagged for potential safety concerns by regulatory or consumer advocacy databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Cupcakes carries a composite safety score of 0/100, which we classify as "Avoid" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan identified 10 flagged ingredients in this product — components that at least one official source has classified as requiring caution, targeted avoidance, or further evaluation. Flagged ingredients are the items most likely to surface in FDA inspection findings, state-level ingredient bans, or outbreak-related recall notices, so the per-ingredient breakdown below is the most useful lens for anyone screening this product for a specific dietary concern.
On the NOVA processing scale, Cupcakes is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 0/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 10 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | Not available | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
12 ct white and chocolate cupcakes with icing met mt 22 oz (1 lb 6 oz) canola ol mono and diglycerides), water, bleached redents sugar vegetable short ening (palm oil, thamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folicacid), enrichedflour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, nacin reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), soy oil, eggs, highfructose corn syrup, less than 2% egg whites, cocoa processed with alkalicorns yrup, cornstarch, skim milk, salt,palm oil, propylene glycol mono - anddiesters of fats and fatty acids, mono - anddiglycerides, soy lecithin, borbitan monostearate, preservatives (sodium foodstarch-modified, natural & artificialflavor, sorbate sodium benzoate, benzoic acid), polysorbate propionate, phosphoricacid, propionic acid, potassium 60 baking soda, medium-chaintriglycerides, blue 2 lake, yellow 5 lake, red 40lake, sunflower lecithin, yellow 6 lake, guar gum, wheat starch, yellow5, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, blue 1, palm kernel oil, red 3, dextrose, xanthan gum,tapioca starch, whey (milk), propylene glycol monoesters, sodium stearoyl lact ylate, corns yrup solids, cellulose gum,calcium sulfate, yellow 6, red 40, monocalcium phosphate, chocolate liquorartificial color, glycerin, microcyrstallinecellulose, rice flour, wheat protein isolate, glucose syrup, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, datem, shellac, carnauba wax, propylene glycol, canola oil, dextrin, aluminum sulfate, acacia, tapioca flour, blue 1 lake, wheatflour,soy flour, tapioca syrup, coconut oil, sodiumalginate, sodium aluminum sulfate, citric acid, gelatin, tartaric acid,carrageenan, maltodextrin cottonseed oil, sorbic acid (preservative), titanium dioxide (color) contains: milk, eggs, wheat and soy pec contain traces of: almonds, coconut walnut, pecans hed
Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
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