Cream Cheese
by Weis
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041497026852 · Weis. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cream Cheese by Weis scores 45/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 60 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 60-component record, beginning with Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. 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.
- 45/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 60 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
30/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
45/100
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.
97026852 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cream Cheese label screening desk
26 of 60 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 97026852 · 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: Milk chocolate candies · Nearest score peer is Milk chocolate candies 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Cream Cheese lists 60 ingredients on its label
60 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 45/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 60 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CULTURED LOWFAT MILK, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: DEXTROSE, CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM), LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), DRIED SWEET WHEY SOLIDS, CORN FLOUR, SALT, CORN STARCH, CORN SYRUP, YEAST, CITRIC ACID, NON FAT DRY MILK, EGGS, FRUCTOSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, DEXTRIN, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), STRAWBERRY PUREE, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, METHYLCELLULOSE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), AGAR, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, PECTIN, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, STEARIC ACID, AMMONIUM SULFATE, L-CYSTEINE, SOY LECITHIN, CARRAGEENAN, ENZYMATICALLY MODIFIED WHEAT GLUTEN, SILICON DIOXIDE, SODIUM CITRATE, RED 40, BLUE 1.
Other products containing Enzymatically Modified Wheat Gluten
Enzymatically Modified Wheat Gluten is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Weis
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Cream Cheese
Neighbours outside Weis in the same lower screening band as Cream Cheese (45/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Weis; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 60 on 0041497026852).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (60 on 0041497026852).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Fructose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cream Cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 60-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Fructose. Open Fructose
- Compare Cream Cheese's 3 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 0041497026852: 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.