Hand iced italian holiday & wedding cookies
Contains 1 flagged ingredient
Hand iced italian holiday & wedding cookies receives a safety score of 95/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 1 ingredient that have been flagged for potential safety concerns by regulatory or consumer advocacy databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Hand iced italian holiday & wedding cookies carries a composite safety score of 95/100, which we classify as "Safe" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan identified 1 flagged ingredient in this product — components that at least one official source has classified as requiring caution, targeted avoidance, or further evaluation. Flagged ingredients are the items most likely to surface in FDA inspection findings, state-level ingredient bans, or outbreak-related recall notices, so the per-ingredient breakdown below is the most useful lens for anyone screening this product for a specific dietary concern.
On the NOVA processing scale, Hand iced italian holiday & wedding cookies is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone. The Nutri-Score grade of D reflects nutritional balance — calories, saturated fat, sugar, sodium versus fiber, protein, and produce content — which again is a distinct dimension from additive safety and worth weighing alongside the scores above.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 95/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 1 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | D | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Flour (wheat flour), sugar (natural cane sugar), brown sugar, margarine (liquid soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, soylecithin, vegetable mono & diglycerides, potassium sorbate & citric acid, artificial flavor, colored with beta carotene, vitamin a), shortening, (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, eggs, milk, cocoa, powdered sugar (sugar, cornstarch), pecans, graham crackers (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin b1 & b2, folic acid, sugar, graham flour, corn syrup, soybean oil, cottonseed oils, honey, calcium, baking soda, salt, artificial flavor, corn starch), evaporated milk (milk, dipotassium, phosphate, carrageenan, vitamin d3), chocolate chips (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa process with alkali, dextrose, nonfat milk and soy lecithin), strawberry spread, (strawberries, corn syrup, high fructose, corn syrup, sugar, fruit pectin and citric acid), figs (dried figs with dextrose), pineapple, (pineapple and juice), salt, vanilla (water, ethyl alcohol 1.8%, propylene, gilcol, vanillin, ethyl vanillin, pure vanilla extract, carmel color and potassium corbate), lemon emulsion (water, propylene glycol, xanthan gum, yellow color #5), cherries (cherries, water corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate), cloves (ground pure cloves), cinnamon (ground cinnamon), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), baking powder (baking soda, cornstarch, sodium aluminum sulfate, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate).
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Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
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