Safe

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites

by Better Bites Bakery

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0850005641063 · Better Bites Bakery · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0850005641063 · Serving size 1 PIECE (22 g)

The verdict

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites by Better Bites Bakery scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 49 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 49-component record, beginning with Sugar, Natural Chocolate, Chocolate Liquor. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 49 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

05641063 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 49 ing. REG-SPARSE 22% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 5% LEAD-RARE Potassium Bicarbonate PHOTO-FINISH Thai Chicken Noodle · ±0 BOOK-OFF …641063 · July 2026

11 of 49 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Bicarbonate). Source sheet 05641063 · 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: Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce Meal Kit, Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce · Nearest score peer is Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce Meal Kit, Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce 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.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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. Simply Vanilla Cake Bites: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Simply Vanilla Cake Bites100/1002. Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce Meal Kit, Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls…100/1003. Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables Meal Kit, Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Weeknight Chicken Pad Tha…100/1004. Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables Meal Kit, Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Weeknight Chicken Pad Tha…100/1005. Elbow macaroni product: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Elbow macaroni product100/100
High-band neighbours for Simply Vanilla Cake Bites (100/100) outside Better Bites Bakery.
Chart values as text

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

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites
100/100
Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce Meal Kit, Thai Chicken Noodle Bowls With Peanut Sauce
100/100
Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables Meal Kit, Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables
100/100
Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables Meal Kit, Weeknight Chicken Pad Thai With Seared Vegetables
100/100
Elbow macaroni product
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Simply Vanilla Cake Bites scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites lists 49 ingredients on its label

49 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 49 (95th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Natural Chocolate
3
Chocolate Liquor
4
Non-alcoholic
5
Non-dairy Cocoa Butter
6
White Rice Flour
7
Vegan Butter
8
Vegetable Oil Blend
9
Palm Fruit
10
Canola
11
And Olive Oils
12
Water
13
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
14
Natural Flavor
15
Sunflower Lecithin
16
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
17
Annatto Extract
18
Color
19
Rice Milk
20
Filtered Water
21
Brown Rice
22
Expeller Pressed Canola Oil
23
Safflower Oil
24
Sunflower Oil
25
Tricalcium Phosphate
26
Vanilla Flavor With Other Natural Flavors
27
Sea salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
28
Vitamin A Palmitate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
29
Vitamin D2
30
Vitamin B12
31
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
32
Tapioca Flour
33
Egg Replacer
34
Leavening
35
Calcium Lactate
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
36
Calcium Carbonate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
37
Cream Of Tartar
38
Cellulose Gum
39
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe
40
White Nonpareils
41
Cane Sugar
42
Corn Starch
43
Carnauba Wax
44
Baking Powder
45
Monocalcium Phosphate
46
Potassium Bicarbonate
FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
47
White Distilled Vinegar
48
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
49
Pgpr

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, chocolate (sugar, natural chocolate liquor (non-alcoholic), non-dairy cocoa butter), white rice flour, vegan butter (vegetable oil blend (palm fruit, canola, and olive oils), water, salt, contains less than 2% of natural flavor, sunflower lecithin, lactic acid (to preserve freshness), and annatto extract (color)), rice milk (filtered water, brown rice, expeller pressed canola oil and/or safflower oil and/or sunflower oil, tricalcium phosphate, natural vanilla flavor with other natural flavors, sea salt, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d2, vitamin b12), potato starch, filtered water, tapioca flour, egg replacer (potato starch, tapioca flour, leavening (calcium lactate, calcium carbonate, cream of tartar), cellulose gum, modified cellulose), white nonpareils (cane sugar, corn starch, carnauba wax), baking powder (monocalcium phosphate, potato starch, potassium bicarbonate), white distilled vinegar, natural flavor, xanthan gum, salt, pgpr.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes

High-score cross-brand comparables for Simply Vanilla Cake Bites

Neighbours outside Better Bites Bakery with screening scores in the same high band as Simply Vanilla Cake Bites (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Better Bites Bakery; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Simply Vanilla Cake Bites has a longer ingredient list than 95% of its Snacks category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0850005641063: 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.