Safe

Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting

by Heinemann's bakeries

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0076185552177 · Heinemann's bakeries · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0076185552177 · Serving size 1 slice (80 g)

The verdict

Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting by Heinemann's bakeries scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 45 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 45-component record, beginning with Sugar Enriched Wheat Flour Bleached Flour, Niacin Reduced Iron. Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavn Folic Acid. 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 45 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

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

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.

85552177 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 45 ing. REG-SPARSE 18% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 7% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Japanese Style Noodles · ±0 BOOK-OFF …552177 · July 2026

8 of 45 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 85552177 · 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: Japanese Style Noodles & Original Flavored Soup · Nearest score peer is Japanese Style Noodles & Original Flavored Soup 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.

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

1. Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Cream Cheese Banana Cake …95/1002. Japanese Style Noodles & Original Flavored Soup: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Japanese Style Noodles & …95/1003. Javanese Style Noodles & Beef Flavored-Soup: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Javanese Style Noodles & …95/1004. TONKOTSU RAMEN: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. TONKOTSU RAMEN95/1005. CHOW MEIN: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. CHOW MEIN95/100
High-band neighbours for Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting (95/100) outside Heinemann's bakeries.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting
95/100
Japanese Style Noodles & Original Flavored Soup
95/100
Javanese Style Noodles & Beef Flavored-Soup
95/100
TONKOTSU RAMEN
95/100
CHOW MEIN
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting scores 8.9 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting lists 45 ingredients on its label

45 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 45 (93rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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 45 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar Enriched Wheat Flour Bleached Flour
2
Niacin Reduced Iron. Thiamine Mononitrate
3
Riboflavn Folic Acid
4
Soybe An Oil. Leavening
5
Baking Soda
6
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Monocalcium Phosphate
7
Aluminum Sulfate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
8
Salt Nonfat Milk Solids Sorbitan Monostearate
9
Egg Whites Guar Gum Triethyl Citrate Whole Eggs Margarine Palm Oil Water
10
Soybe An Oil
11
Whey Leavening Baking Soda Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Aluminum Sulfate
12
Vital Wheat Gluten
13
Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate Tricalcium Phosphate Ascorbic Acid
14
Dough Conditioner
15
Cream Cheese Pasteurized Milk Cream Cheese Culture
16
Carob Bean Gum
17
Shortening
18
Palm Oil & Soybe An Oil With Mono - And Diglycerides And Polysorbate 60 Added
19
Tbhq And Citric Acid Added To Protect Flavor
20
Palm Kernel Oil
21
Cocoa Processed With Alkali
22
Banana Puree
23
Organic Banana
24
Citric Acid Ascorbic Acid
25
High Fructose Corn Syrup Preservatives
26
Sodium Benzoate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FUMIGANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
27
Sodium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
28
Potassium Sorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
Safe GRAS
29
Artificial Flavor. Yellow 5
30
Chocolate Liquor Vanillin
31
Artificial Flavoring
32
Cocoa Butter Natural Vanilla Extract Corn Syrup Reconstituted Milk Water
33
Milk
34
Butter
35
Cream
36
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
37
Invert Sugar Bha As An Antioxidant Natural Flavors
38
Ammonium Carbonate
LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT
GRAS
39
Phosphoric Acid Polysorbate 80 Sodium Benzoate Sorbic Acid
40
Salt Titanium Dioxide Xanthan Gum Yellow 8 Yellow 5
41
Orange Pulp Glycerin Calcium Silicate Bourbonnais Vanilla
42
Natural And Artificial Flavors Water
43
Ethyl Alcohol
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
44
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
45
Partially

Full Ingredient List

Sugar Enriched Wheat Flour Bleached Flour, Niacin Reduced Iron. Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavn Folic Acid, Soybe An Oil. Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Monocalcium Phosphate, Aluminum Sulfate) Food Starch-Modified Dextrose Propylene Glycol Mono & Diesters Of Fatty Acids. Mono & Diglycerides With Bht & Citric Acid As Preservatives, Salt Nonfat Milk Solids Sorbitan Monostearate, Artificial Flavor Soy Lecithin Xanthan Gum Cellulose Gum Polysorbate 60 Wheat Starch Silicon Dioxide Water Sucrose Maltodextrin, Egg Whites Guar Gum Triethyl Citrate Whole Eggs Margarine Palm Oil Water, Soybe An Oil, Salt With Mono And Diglycerides Added Colored With Annatto Calcium Disodium Edta Added As A Preservative Artificial Butter Flavor Vitamin A Palmitate Added) Whey Leavening Baking Soda Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Aluminum Sulfate, Vital Wheat Gluten, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate Tricalcium Phosphate Ascorbic Acid (Dough Conditioner) Cream Cheese Pasteurized Milk Cream Cheese Culture, Carob Bean Gum), Shortening (Palm Oil & Soybe An Oil With Mono - And Diglycerides And Polysorbate 60 Added, Tbhq And Citric Acid Added To Protect Flavor). Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Banana Puree (Banana, Citric Acid Ascorbic Acid), High Fructose Corn Syrup Preservatives (Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Propionate, Potassium Sorbate), Artificial Flavor. Yellow 5, Chocolate Liquor Vanillin (An Artificial Flavoring) Cocoa Butter Natural Vanilla Extract Corn Syrup Reconstituted Milk Water, Powdered Milk), Butter (Cream, Salt). Invert Sugar Bha As An Antioxidant Natural Flavors, Ammonium Carbonate, Custard Water Corn Syrup High Fructose Corn Syrup Sugar Food Starch-Modified Agar-Agar Caramel Color Natural & Artificial Flavor Palm Oil, Phosphoric Acid Polysorbate 80 Sodium Benzoate Sorbic Acid, Salt Titanium Dioxide Xanthan Gum Yellow 8 Yellow 5) Orange Pulp Glycerin Calcium Silicate Bourbonnais Vanilla (Natural And Artificial Flavors Water, Ethyl Alcohol, Caramel Color, Partially

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes

High-score cross-brand comparables for Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting

Neighbours outside Heinemann's bakeries with screening scores in the same high band as Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting (95/100 here). The 3 same-brand links above stay within Heinemann's bakeries; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 45-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Cream Cheese Banana Cake With Salted Caramel Frosting, Cream Cheese Banana With Salted Caramel Frosting'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 0076185552177: 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.