Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk
by Duncan Hines
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644209021437 · Duncan Hines · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk by Duncan Hines scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 25 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 25-component label is layered, beginning with Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 25 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0644209021437
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
09021437 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk label screening desk
8 of 25 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate). Source sheet 09021437 · 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: All Natural Table Syrup · Nearest score peer is All Natural Table Syrup 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.
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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk scores 9.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 90.9/100), 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 Cooking helpers products
Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk lists 25 ingredients on its label
25 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 40 and above
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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 1,898 Cooking helpers 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
Full Ingredient List
Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Brown Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Vegetable Oil Shortening (Palm Oil), Contains Less Than 2% Of: Powdered Egg White (Egg Albumen, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate [Whipping Aid]), Salt, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Soy Lecithin, Vanilla Extract, Natural Flavor.
Other products containing Whipping Aid
Whipping Aid is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 76 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk
Neighbours outside Duncan Hines with screening scores in the same high band as Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Duncan Hines; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (25 on 0644209021437).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Chocolate Chunk Mega Pan Cookie Mix, Chocolate Chunk has a longer ingredient list than 79% of its Cooking helpers category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Sodium Lauryl Sulfate first, then work through the remaining 25 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0644209021437: 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.