White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct
Open Food Facts label for barcode 19510491 · Kirkland Signature. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct by Kirkland Signature scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 83 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 83-component record, beginning with Sugar, Bleached Enriched Flour, 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.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 83 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 19510491
- 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
60/100
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.
19510491 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct label screening desk
18 of 83 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 19510491 · 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: Great Value Vanilla pudding · Nearest score peer is Great Value Vanilla pudding at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct lists 83 ingredients on its label
83 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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
- 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 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 83 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
sugar, bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, vit. (B3, B1, B2, B9, iron)), water, fats , oils (shortening, palm and/or soybean oils), emulsifiers (propylene glycol monoesters, mono - , diglycerides, soy lecithin, sodium stearoyl lactylate, polysorbate 60, distilled monoglycerides, citric acid), cocoa (processed with alkali), egg whites, whey, egg yolk, dextrose, modified corn starch, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate), nonfat milk, salt, cellulose, caramel color, natural , artificial flavors, gums (xanthan, guar, locust bean), FD, C red#40, calcium acetate, potassium sorbate (preservative), sugar, oils , shortening (palm and/or canola, interesterified soybean, soybean, fully hydrogenated cottonseed, palm kernel, mono - , diglycerides), cocoa, dextrose, water, non-fat dry milk, corn starch, rice flour, salt, natural , artificial flavors, FD, C (red#3, red#40, red#40 lake, blue#1, blue#2 lake, yellow#5, yellow#5 lake, yellow#6, yellow#6 lake), caramel color, gum arabic, cellulose gum, confectioners glaze, carrageenan, modified corn starch, gellan gum, medium chain triglycerides, sodium citrate, preservatives (potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, TBHQ, citric acid), sunflower , soy lecithin (hydroxyplated), polysorbate 60, titanium dioxide, corn syrup, carnauba wax, artificial color
More from Kirkland Signature
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct
Neighbours outside Kirkland Signature near White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kirkland Signature; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 83 on 19510491).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (83 on 19510491).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 83-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare White Cupcakes With Buttercream Icing 12ct's 4 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 19510491: 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.