Heavy Cream
Heavy Cream appears in 1,816 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
Heavy Cream appears in 1,816 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.
- 1,816
- catalogued products
- #435
- usage rank of 247,206
- 486
- named brands represented
- 34%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 746 of 1816 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 3" lemon drop; 30% Whipping Cream; 365 everyday value, heavy cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Heavy Cream itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
746 of 1,816 linked records have some flagged component
All 1762 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.
Heavy Cream: top-decile catalog footprint (#435 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #435
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 34%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,816 products listing it (mean slot 11.3). Heavy Cream usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Heavy Cream
Across the 1,816 products on this site that list Heavy 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 7.5x more often with Heavy Cream than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Heavy Cream products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 611 | 33.6% | 4.5% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 241 | 13.3% | 1.3% |
| Caramel Coloring | 142 | 7.8% | 5.7% |
| Sucralose | 52 | 2.9% | 2.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 50 | 2.8% | 1.4% |
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 Heavy Cream
Products Containing Heavy Cream
High-volume slice (16 of 1,816) for products naming Heavy Cream:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Thiamin Hydrochloride”)
Top-decile company for Heavy Cream: 1,816 listings averaging 94.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Thiamin Hydrochloride; L. Acidophilus; Soya Lecithin.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Heavy Cream evidence
Start from Heavy Cream's 1,816 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Heavy Cream to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Heavy Cream next to “L. Acidophilus” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Heavy Cream — common follow-ups
Does Heavy 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 Heavy Cream. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Heavy Cream? ▼
Heavy Cream ranks in the top decile by product count (#435 of 247,206), appearing in 1,816 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Heavy Cream so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Heavy Cream appears in 1,816 products (#435 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Heavy 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.