Concern

Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0018000109814 · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0018000109814 · Serving size 1 cookie (33 g) (33 g)

The verdict

Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Enriched Flour Bleached, Wheat Flour, Niacin. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

50/100
Concern safety score
2
Few flagged · of 26 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

33/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

50/100

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.

00109814 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-LAYERED 26 ing. REG-PART 38% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 19% LEAD-FLAG Blue 1 PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …109814 · July 2026

10 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Source sheet 00109814 · 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

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.

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.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count scores 40.9 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 90.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Cooking helpers products

Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count lists 26 ingredients on its label

26 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 1,898 products we track

0–2: 36 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 95 products (5%). Below this entry. 4–6: 146 products (8%). Below this entry. 6–8: 252 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 178 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 121 products (6%). Below this entry. 12–14: 148 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 124 products (7%). Below this entry. 16–18: 111 products (6%). Below this entry. 18–20: 107 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 84 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 74 products (4%). Below this entry. 24–26: 58 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 47 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 51 products (3%). Above this entry. 30–32: 42 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 30 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 27 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 19 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 13 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 135 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Cooking helpers 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

1,898 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 26 (81st percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
36 products (2%)
2–4
95 products (5%)
4–6
146 products (8%)
6–8
252 products (13%)
8–10
178 products (9%)
10–12
121 products (6%)
12–14
148 products (8%)
14–16
124 products (7%)
16–18
111 products (6%)
18–20
107 products (6%)
20–22
84 products (4%)
22–24
74 products (4%)
24–26
58 products (3%)
26–28
47 products (2%)
28–30
51 products (3%)
30–32
42 products (2%)
32–34
30 products (2%)
34–36
27 products (1%)
36–38
19 products (1%)
38–40
13 products (1%)
40 and above
135 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. The comparison here runs against the 1,898 Cooking helpers 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

How the 50/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 26 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Enriched Flour Bleached
 2
Wheat Flour
 3
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
4
Iron
 5
Thiamin Mononitrate
 6
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
8
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
9
Water
 10
Palm Oil
 11
Canola
 12
Soybean Oil
 13
Strawberry Flavored Bits
 14
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
15
Corn Flour
 16
Natural And Artificial Flavor
 17
Strawberry Powder
 18
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
19
Malic Acid
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SYNERGIST
Safe GRAS
20
Red 40
Avoid Approved (certified color)
21
Blue 1
Caution Approved (certified color)
22
Eggs
 23
Baking Powder
 24
Baking Soda
 25
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
 26
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back

Full Ingredient List

Enriched flour bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, canola and/or soybean oil, strawberry flavored bits (dextrose, palm oil, corn flour, natural and artificial flavor, strawberry powder, citric acid, malic acid, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake). contains 2% or less of: eggs, baking powder (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), salt, natural and artificial flavor.

Other products containing Strawberry Flavored Bits

Strawberry Flavored Bits is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 12 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Lender's, bagels, very berry Lender's Duncan hines, signature cake mix, strawberry supreme Duncan Hines Glazed strawberry cake doughnuts Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation Strawberry Buy A Bar Food lion, lightly sweetened whole grain wheat cereal, bite-sized strawberry frosted Food Lion Hannaford, whole grain wheat cereal, strawberry frosted Hannaford Lil' Bits Oatmeal Banana Strawberry Cereal (Crawler) Gerber

Categories

Cooking helpers

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Blue 1 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 1. Open Blue 1
  • Compare Pillsbury Ready To Bake! Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies 12 Count's 2 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 0018000109814: 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.