Cream
Cream appears in 26,341 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Cream appears in 26,341 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 26,341
- catalogued products
- #31
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,590
- named brands represented
- 36%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 10883 of 26341 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0% Milkfat Fat Free Small Curd Cottage Cheese; 0% milkfat fat free small curd cottage cheese; 0230 Choc-Au-Lait™ Gourmet White Baking Chips to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Cream itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
10883 of 26,341 linked records have some flagged component
All 26050 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Cream sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#31 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #31
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 36%
- Averaged label depth puts Cream in the upper half of the list (36% of list length, mean slot 11.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Cream
Across the 26,341 products on this site that list Cream, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Carrageenan shows up about 5.8x more often with Cream than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Cream products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 6,864 | 26.1% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 2,481 | 9.4% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 1,688 | 6.4% | 1.3% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,301 | 4.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 1,278 | 4.9% | 5.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cream
Products Containing Cream
High-volume slice (16 of 26,341) for products naming Cream:
Cream vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Cream: 26,341 products, mean screening score 91.3/100. Nearest count peers include “Onion”, “Yeast”, “Guar Gum”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Cream evidence
Use the 26,341-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Cream to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cream carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Cream. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Cream? ▼
Cream ranks in the top decile by product count (#31 of 247,206), appearing in 26,341 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Cream so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cream appears in 26,341 products (#31 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cream). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.