Icing Blue
by Cake Mate
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0052100048109 · Cake Mate · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Icing Blue by Cake Mate scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Soybean. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 18 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0052100048109
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
00048109 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Icing Blue label screening desk
9 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 00048109 · 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: Loaded Fries Seasoning Mix · Nearest score peer is Loaded Fries Seasoning Mix 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. Icing Blue scores 19.8 points above that category average (85/100 vs. 65.2/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Baking-decorations products
Icing Blue lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% of the 2,313 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 13 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 46 products (2%)
- 4–6
- 171 products (7%)
- 6–8
- 322 products (14%)
- 8–10
- 264 products (11%)
- 10–12
- 335 products (14%)
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- 253 products (11%)
- 14–16
- 201 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 186 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 161 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 106 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 78 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 69 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 41 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 28 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 13 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 8 products (0%)
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- 3 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 3 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 4 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 8 products (0%)
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 2,313 Baking-decorations 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean, cottonseed), water, corn syrup, modified cornstarch, salt, cornstarch, mono - and digleycerides, natural & artificial flavor, titanium dioxide (color), potassium sorbate (preservative), polysorbate 60, citric acid, blue lake.
Other products containing Blue Lake
Blue Lake is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 7 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Icing Blue
Neighbours outside Cake Mate with screening scores in the same high band as Icing Blue (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Cake Mate; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 18 on 0052100048109).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0052100048109).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Icing Blue's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Icing Blue's 1 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 0052100048109: 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.