Cream Cheese Spread

Cream Cheese Spread appears in 10 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 Cheese Spread appears in 10 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.

10
catalogued products
#15,180
usage rank of 247,206
6
named brands represented
20%
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: 3 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Cream cheese aged cheddar; Cream Cheese Spread, Pumpkin Spice; Cream cheese! fruit dip to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 55–100 score range to Cream Cheese Spread itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Condiments supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

3 of 10 linked records have some flagged component

All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 55–100 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 Cheese Spread sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#15,180 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#15,180
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
20%
Mean relative depth 20% across 10 parsed labels, slot 5.6 on average. Cream Cheese Spread tends to sit near the top of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 10 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 Cheese Spread

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 5060708090100110 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Cream Cheese Spread Cream cheese aged cheddarCream Cheese Spread, Pumpkin SpiceCream cheese! fruit dipItalian Style PinwheelsSpinach Artichoke DipTzatziki SpreadCream cheese! fruit dip, cream cheese!Fruit tray with vanilla bean cream cheese dipItalian style pinwheelsOlives stuffed with real bleu cheese
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Cream Cheese Spread: 10 listings averaging 93/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Cream Cheese Spread evidence

Start from Cream Cheese Spread's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Cream Cheese Spread

Does Cream Cheese Spread 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 Cheese Spread. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Cream Cheese Spread?

Cream Cheese Spread ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Cream Cheese Spread so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Cream Cheese Spread appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Cream Cheese Spread). 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.