Caution

Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix

by Duff Goldman

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0634680200056 · Duff Goldman. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0634680200056 · Serving size 51 g (0.334 cup)

The verdict

Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix by Duff Goldman scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 42 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 42-component record, beginning with Sugar, Enriched Bleached Flour, Bleached Wheat 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.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 42 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0634680200056
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

60/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

85/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

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.

80200056 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 42 ing. REG-PART 31% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 6% LEAD-FLAG BHT PHOTO-FINISH Chicken Cabanossi With · ±0 BOOK-OFF …200056 · July 2026

13 of 42 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 80200056 · 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: Chicken Cabanossi With Turkey Added · Nearest score peer is Chicken Cabanossi With Turkey Added 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.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

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. Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Hallowween Scream Premium…85/1002. Chicken Cabanossi With Turkey Added: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Chicken Cabanossi With Tu…85/1003. Frosting cakes: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Frosting cakes85/1004. Fat free Poppyseed salad dressing: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Fat free Poppyseed salad …85/1005. Cilantro lime ranch, cilantro lime: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Cilantro lime ranch, cila…85/100
High-band neighbours for Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix (85/100) outside Duff Goldman.
Chart values as text

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

Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix
85/100
Chicken Cabanossi With Turkey Added
85/100
Frosting cakes
85/100
Fat free Poppyseed salad dressing
85/100
Cilantro lime ranch, cilantro lime
85/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix lists 42 ingredients on its label

42 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 42 (94th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
6,050 products (2%)
2–4
24,522 products (7%)
4–6
31,054 products (9%)
6–8
30,981 products (9%)
8–10
31,618 products (9%)
10–12
29,943 products (8%)
12–14
28,403 products (8%)
14–16
27,417 products (8%)
16–18
24,508 products (7%)
18–20
19,062 products (5%)
20–22
14,679 products (4%)
22–24
12,238 products (3%)
24–26
10,830 products (3%)
26–28
9,344 products (3%)
28–30
7,955 products (2%)
30–32
6,753 products (2%)
32–34
5,918 products (2%)
34–36
5,282 products (1%)
36–38
4,531 products (1%)
38–40
4,063 products (1%)
40 and above
24,241 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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.

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 42 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Enriched Bleached Flour
3
Bleached Wheat Flour
4
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
5
Iron
6
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
9
Organic Cocoa
10
Vegetable Shortening
11
Palm Oil
12
Soybean Oil With Emulsifier
13
Propylene Glycol Mono - And Diesters
14
Mono - And Diglycerides And Soy Lecithin
15
Preservative
16
BHT
Caution GRAS
17
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
18
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
19
Leavening
20
Baking Soda
21
Monocalcium Phosphate
22
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
23
Corn Starch
24
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
25
Cellulose Gum
26
Guar Um
27
Soybean Oil
28
Emulsifier
29
Propylene Glycol Mono - And Diesters. Mono - And Diglycerides
30
Soy Lecithin
31
Artificial Flavor
32
Water
33
Propylene Glycol
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
34
Yellow #6
35
Red #40
36
Yellow #5
37
Modified Food Starch
38
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
39
Red #3
40
Potassium Sorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
Safe GRAS
41
Sodium Benzoate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FUMIGANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
42
Blue #1

Full Ingredient List

Chocolate cake mix ingredients: sugar, enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cocoa (processed with alkali), vegetable shortening (contains one or more of the following: palm oil and/or soybean oil with emulsifier [propylene glycol mono - and diesters, mono - and diglycerides and soy lecithin] with preservative [bht, citric acid]), dextrose, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), modified corn starch, contains 2% or less of: salt, cellulose gum, guar um, artificial flavor. white cake mix ingredients: sugar, enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable shortening ([contains one or more of the following: palm oil, and/or soybean oil] with emulsifier [propylene glycol mono - and diesters. mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin] with preservative [bht, citric acid]), modified corn starch, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), contains 2% or less of: salt, dextrose, artificial flavor, xanthan gum. orange color ingredients: water, sugar, propylene glycol, yellow #6, red #40, yellow #5, modified food starch, xanthan gum, red #3, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, blue #1. purple color ingredients: water, sugar, propylene glycol, red #3, blue #1, modified food starch, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate.

Other products containing Guar Um

Guar Um is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

High-score cross-brand comparables for Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix

Neighbours outside Duff Goldman with screening scores in the same high band as Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Duff Goldman; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 42-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
  • Compare Hallowween Scream Premium Cake Mix'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 0634680200056: 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.