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Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit

by Duncan Hines

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644209004041 · Duncan Hines. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0644209004041

The verdict

Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit by Duncan Hines scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 68 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 7 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 68-component record, beginning with Confetti Cake Mix, Sugar, 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.

0/100
Avoid safety score
7
Many flagged · of 68 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0644209004041
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

3/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

0/100

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.

09004041 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit label screening desk

SCORE-AVOID 0/100 FLAG-MANY 7 flagged LEN-DENSE 68 ing. REG-SPARSE 29% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Blue 2 PHOTO-FINISH Chuckles, Assorted Flavors · ±0 BOOK-OFF …004041 · July 2026

20 of 68 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 2). Source sheet 09004041 · 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: Chuckles, Assorted Flavors Of Mini Jelly Candies · Nearest score peer is Chuckles, Assorted Flavors Of Mini Jelly Candies 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.

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. Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #11. Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit0/1002. Chuckles, Assorted Flavors Of Mini Jelly Candies: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #22. Chuckles, Assorted Flavor…0/1003. Sugar Babies: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #33. Sugar Babies0/1004. Delicious Candy Coated Milk Caramels: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #44. Delicious Candy Coated Mi…0/1005. Tgf, Holiday Sweet Tooth, Sweet & Nuts Blend: 0/100 · 0% of the leader · rank #55. Tgf, Holiday Sweet Tooth,…0/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit (0/100 on 68 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit
0/100
Chuckles, Assorted Flavors Of Mini Jelly Candies
0/100
Sugar Babies
0/100
Delicious Candy Coated Milk Caramels
0/100
Tgf, Holiday Sweet Tooth, Sweet & Nuts Blend
0/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit lists 68 ingredients on its label

68 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% 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: 68 (99th 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 0/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (7 flagged of 68 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Confetti Cake Mix
2
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Bleached Wheat Flour
4
Emulsified Palm Shortening
5
Palm Oil
6
Propilene Glycol Mono - And Diesters Of Fats And Fatty Acids
7
Mono-and Diglycerides
8
Sodium Stearovl Lactylate
9
Sprnkles
10
Yellow Corn Flour
11
Modifed Corn Starch
12
Canola Oil
13
Vellow 5 Lake
14
Réd 40 Lake
15
Wheat Flour
16
Yellow 6
Avoid Approved (certified color)
17
Blue 2
Avoid Approved (certified color)
18
Blue 1
Caution Approved (certified color)
19
Leavening
20
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
21
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
22
Dicalcium Phosphate
23
Monocalcum Phosphate
24
Tricalcum Phosphate
25
Wheat Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
26
Salt Titanum Dioxide
27
Color
28
Cellulose Gum
29
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
30
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
31
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
32
Artificial Flavors
33
Corn Starch
34
Frosting
35
Water
36
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
37
Corn Starch
38
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
39
Polysorbate 60
BOILER WATER ADDITIVE, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Caution Approved
40
Titanum Dioxide
41
Preservatives
42
Potassium Sorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
Safe GRAS
43
Muked Tocopherols
44
Alpha Tocopherol
45
Corn Maltodextrin
46
Sodium Stearovyl Lactylate
47
Natural And Artificial Flavor
48
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
49
Cereal
50
Rice
51
Red 40
Avoid Approved (certified color)
52
Yellow 6
Avoid Approved (certified color)
53
Yellow 5
Avoid Approved (certified color)
54
Turmeric Oleoresin
55
Blue 1
Caution Approved (certified color)
56
Lue2 Ht And Bha Preservatve
57
Sodium Ascorbate And Ascorbic Acd
58
Macinamide
59
Reduced Iron
60
Znc Oxide
61
Vtamin A Palmītate
62
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
63
Thiamin Monontrate
64
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
65
Folicacid
66
Vitamin D3
67
Vitamin B12
68
Wiheat

Full Ingredient List

confetti cake mix (sugar, bleached wheat flour, emulsified palm shortening (palm oil, propilene glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, mono-and diglycerides, sodium stearovl lactylate), sprnkles (sugar, yellow corn flour, modifed corn starch, canola oil, vellow 5 lake, réd 40 lake, wheat flour, yellow 6 lake, blue 2 lake, blue 1 lake), leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, monocalcum phosphate, tricalcum phosphate), wheat starch, contains less than 2% of salt titanum dioxide (color), cellulose gum, xanthan gum, dextrose, maltodextrin, artificial flavors, modified corn starch), frosting (sugar, water, palm oil, corn syrup, canola oil, contains less than 2% of: corn starch, modified corn starch, mono-and diglycerides, salt, polysorbate 60, titanum dioxide (color), preservatives (potassium sorbate, muked tocopherols, alpha tocopherol), corn maltodextrin, sodium stearovyl lactylate, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavor, citric acid), cereal (rice, sugar, canola oil, salt, natural and artificial flavor, red 40, yellow 6, yellow 5, turmeric oleoresin (color) blue 1, lue2 ht and bha preservatve), sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acd, macinamide, reduced iron,znc oxide, vtamin a palmītate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamin monontrate, riboflavin, folicacid,vitamin d3, vitamin b12), contains wiheat,v

Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit

Neighbours outside Duncan Hines in the same lower screening band as Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Duncan Hines; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Blue 2 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 68-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 2. Open Blue 2
  • Compare Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit's 7 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 0644209004041: 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.