Cookies & Cream Topping
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071117182255 · Reser's Fine Foods · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cookies & Cream Topping by Reser's Fine Foods scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 59 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 59-component record, beginning with Whipped Topping, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 59 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
17182255 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cookies & Cream Topping label screening desk
19 of 59 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 17182255 · 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: Signature style macaroni salad · Nearest score peer is Signature style macaroni salad at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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 2,509 products we've scored in the Baking-decorations category, the average safety score is 65.2/100. Cookies & Cream Topping scores 29.8 points above that category average (95/100 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
Cookies & Cream Topping lists 59 ingredients on its label
59 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 13 products (1%)
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- 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%)
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- 201 products (9%)
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- 186 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 161 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 106 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 78 products (3%)
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- 69 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 41 products (2%)
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- 28 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 13 products (1%)
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- 8 products (0%)
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- 3 products (0%)
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- 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 59 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Whipped topping (water, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, contains less than 2% of the following: carbohydrate gum, polysorbate 60, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, salt, soy lecithin, sodium citrate, natural and artificial flavors, disodium phosphate, xanthan gum, modified corn starch, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate to protect flavor, gelatin, citric acid, colored with beta carotene), sour dressing (non fat milk, palm oil, modified corn starch, soybean oil, mono and diglycerides, gelatin, lactic acid, guar gum, potassium sorbate to protect flavor, citric acid, acetic acid, natural and artificial flavors, carrageenan, sodium phosphate, beta-carotene), pudding mix (sugar, dextrose, food starch-modified), sodium and potassium phosphates, non fat dry milk, artificial flavor, partially hydrogenated soybean and cotton seed oils, mono - and diglycerides), chocolate sandwich cookies (unbleached enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], sugar, palm and/or canola oil, cocoa [processed with alkali], high fructose corn syrup, leavening [baking soda and/or calcium phosphate], cornstarch, salt, soy lecithin, vanillin - an artificial flavor, chocolate), vanilla flavor (propylene glycol, natural and artificial flavors, ethylalcohol).
Other products containing Ethylalcohol
Ethylalcohol is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cookies & Cream Topping
Neighbours outside Reser's Fine Foods with screening scores in the same high band as Cookies & Cream Topping (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Reser's Fine Foods; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 59 on 0071117182255).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (59 on 0071117182255).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cookies & Cream Topping's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 59-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Cookies & Cream Topping'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 0071117182255: 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.