French Style Classic Cheesecake
by Sara Lee
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0032100037211 · Sara Lee · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
French Style Classic Cheesecake by Sara Lee scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Water, Sugar, Vegetable Oil. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 56 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
70/100
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.
00037211 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
French Style Classic Cheesecake label screening desk
21 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 00037211 · 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: Mccormick bacn pieces applewood smoked bacon flavored bits · Nearest score peer is Mccormick bacn pieces applewood smoked bacon flavored bits at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. French Style Classic Cheesecake scores 22.9 points below that category average (70/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Desserts products
French Style Classic Cheesecake lists 56 ingredients on its label
56 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
- 6–8
- 461 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 1,026 products (9%)
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- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
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- 590 products (5%)
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- 439 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 422 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 346 products (3%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 249 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 211 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 754 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 11,156 Desserts 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 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, sugar, vegetable oil (palm, soybean), milk, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whey, skim milk, cream, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), neufchatel cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), contains 2% or less: modified corn starch, rolled oats, gelatin, maltodextrin, milk protein concentrate, salt, cheese cultures, lactose, malted barley flour, molasses, gums (carob bean, xanthan, carrageenan, cellulose, guar), baking soda, citric acid, mono - and diglycerides, lactic acid, cinnamon, modified tapioca starch, natural and artificial flavors, lactylic esters of fatty acids, colored with (apocarotenal, annatto extract, caramel color, turmeric), culture, dextrose, polysorbate 80, preservatives (potassium sorbate, bha).
Other products containing Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids
Lactylic Esters Of Fatty Acids is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 56 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for French Style Classic Cheesecake
Neighbours outside Sara Lee near French Style Classic Cheesecake's mid-band score (70/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Sara Lee; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 56 on 0032100037211).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (56 on 0032100037211).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from French Style Classic Cheesecake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare French Style Classic Cheesecake'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 0032100037211: 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.