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California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon

by Rubicon Bakers

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0631782004773 · Rubicon Bakers · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0631782004773 · Serving size 0.25 cake (78 g)

The verdict

California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon by Rubicon Bakers scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 33-component record, beginning with Confectioner's Sugar, Cane Sugar, Cornstarch. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 33 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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

82004773 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 33 ing. REG-PART 30% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 16% LEAD-RARE Sodium Pyrophosphate PHOTO-FINISH Vegan Chocolate Chip · ±0 BOOK-OFF …004773 · July 2026

10 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Pyrophosphate). Source sheet 82004773 · 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: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies · Nearest score peer is Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out 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.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. California Lemon Layer Ca…100/1002. Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Vegan Chocolate Chip Cook…100/1003. Rubicon Bakers, Muffins, Blueberry: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Rubicon Bakers, Muffins, …100/1004. Rubicon Bakers, Handcrafted Chocolate Streusel Muffins: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Rubicon Bakers, Handcraft…100/1005. Rubicon Bakers, Fruit & Bran Muffins: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Rubicon Bakers, Fruit & B…100/100
High-band neighbours for California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon (100/100) outside Rubicon Bakers.
Chart values as text

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

California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon
100/100
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
100/100
Rubicon Bakers, Muffins, Blueberry
100/100
Rubicon Bakers, Handcrafted Chocolate Streusel Muffins
100/100
Rubicon Bakers, Fruit & Bran Muffins
100/100

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. California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon lists 33 ingredients on its label

33 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% 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%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. 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: 33 (84th 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

1
Confectioner's Sugar
2
Cane Sugar
3
Cornstarch
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
4
Enriched Unbleached Flour
5
Wheat Flour
6
Malted Barley Flour
7
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Iron
9
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
10
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
11
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
12
Dried Cream Cheese
13
Pasteur-ized Cultured Milk And Cream
14
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
15
Stabilizers
16
Guar Gum And Carob Bean Gum
17
Water
18
Expeller-pressed Canola Oil
19
Cage-free Eggs
20
Butter
21
Cream
22
Rspo Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
23
Lemon Extract
24
Lemon Oil
25
Alcohol
26
Non-fat Milk
27
Lemon Peel
28
Baking Powder
29
Sodium Pyrophosphate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
30
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
31
Monocalcium Phosphate
32
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
33
Sea salt
Flavoring
Cut Back

Full Ingredient List

Confectioner'S Sugar (Cane Sugar, Cornstarch), Cane Sugar, Enriched Unbleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Cream Cheese (Pasteur-Ized Cultured Milk And Cream, Salt, Stabilizers (Guar Gum And Carob Bean Gum]), Water, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Cage-Free Eggs, Butter (Cream), Rspo Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, Lemon Extract (Lemon Oil, Alcohol, Water), Non-Fat Powdered Milk, Lemon Peel (Lemon Peel, Cane Sugar, Lemon Oil), Baking Powder (Sodium Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Cornstarch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Citric Acid, Sea Salt.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes

High-score cross-brand comparables for California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon

Neighbours outside Rubicon Bakers with screening scores in the same high band as California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Rubicon Bakers; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

California Lemon Layer Cake With Lemon Cream Cheese Icing, California Lemon has a longer ingredient list than 84% of its Snacks category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0631782004773: 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.