Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream
by Duncan Hines
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644209425389 · Duncan Hines · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream by Duncan Hines scores 75/100 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 Cake Mix, Sugar, Enriched 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 42 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0644209425389
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
09425389 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream label screening desk
15 of 42 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 09425389 · 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: Cotton Candy · Nearest score peer is Cotton Candy 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
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. Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream scores 15.9 points below that category average (75/100 vs. 90.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker 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
Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream lists 42 ingredients on its label
42 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 36 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 95 products (5%)
- 4–6
- 146 products (8%)
- 6–8
- 252 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 178 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 121 products (6%)
- 12–14
- 148 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 124 products (7%)
- 16–18
- 111 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 107 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 84 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 58 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 47 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 51 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 42 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 30 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 27 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 19 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 13 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 135 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. 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
How the 75/100 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.
Full Ingredient List
Cake Mix (Sugar, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Oil Shortening (Palm Oil), Cocoa Powder Processed With Alkali, Wheat Starch, Leavening (Baking Soda, Dicalcium Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Dextrose, Emulsifier (Propylene Esters, Mono And Diglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate), Salt, Red 40, Artificial Flavor, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum). Frosting (Sugar, Shortening (Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Mono - And Diglycerides, Polysorbate 60), Water, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Corn Syrup, Corn Starch, Modified Food Starch, Natural Flavor, Salt, Preservative (Rosemary Extract, Potassium Sorbate), Citric Acid).
Other products containing Propylene Esters
Propylene Esters is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 19 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream
Neighbours outside Duncan Hines near Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Duncan Hines; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 42 on 0644209425389).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (42 on 0644209425389).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream'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 Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Red Velvet Dream Cake Mix & Cream Cheese Frosting, Red Velvet Dream'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 0644209425389: 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.