Orange Cake Mix, Orange
by Walmart
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0718813522281 · Walmart · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Orange Cake Mix, Orange by Walmart scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour Bleach, 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 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0718813522281
- 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.
13522281 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Orange Cake Mix, Orange label screening desk
13 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 13522281 · 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: Spice Drops · Nearest score peer is Spice Drops 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.
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. Orange Cake Mix, Orange 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
Orange Cake Mix, Orange lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% 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%)
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- 124 products (7%)
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- 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%)
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- 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 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour Bleach (Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine, Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Palm Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Artificial Flavor, Beta-Carotene (Color), Calcium Carbonate, Calcium Sulfate, Defatted Soy Flour, Eggs Food Starch-Modified, Leavening (Baking Soda, Mono Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Aluminium Phosphate), Mono And Diglycerides, Nonfat Milk, Propylene Glycol Mono And Diesters Of Fatty Acids, Salt, Artificial Color (Fd&C Yellow 6), Soy Lecithin, Soybean Oil, Wheat Starch, Whey.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Orange Cake Mix, Orange
Neighbours outside Walmart near Orange Cake Mix, Orange's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Walmart; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 32 on 0718813522281).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0718813522281).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Orange Cake Mix, Orange's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Orange Cake Mix, Orange'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 0718813522281: 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.