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Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0223209804990. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0223209804990

The verdict

Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 69 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 69-component record, beginning with Cream Cheese Loing, Sugar, Dried Cream Cheese. 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.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 69 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0223209804990
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.

09804990 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 69 ing. REG-SPARSE 12% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Propyl Gallate PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …804990 · July 2026

8 of 69 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propyl Gallate). Source sheet 09804990 · 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

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.

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.

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake lists 69 ingredients on its label

69 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 69 (99th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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 85/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 69 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Cream Cheese Loing
2
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Dried Cream Cheese
4
Pasteurized Milk And Cream
5
Cheese Culture
6
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
7
Carob Bean Gum
8
Vegetable Shortening
9
Palm Oil
10
Canola Oil
11
Mono - And Digly Oerides
12
Dex Trose
13
Gream Cheese Powder
14
Cream Cheese Solide
15
Cream
16
Nonfat Milk
17
Sodium Alginete
18
La Otio Aoid
19
Corn Syrup Solida
20
Sodium Caseinate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
21
Milk
22
Na Tural Flavor
23
Corn 3taroh
24
Soy Bean Oil
25
Natural Flavor
26
Benz Oio A Oid
27
Preservative
28
Poly Eorbete 80
29
Propyl Gallate
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Avoid GRAS
30
Antiox Idant
31
Beta Carofene
32
Color
33
Chooola Te Cupceke
34
Enriohed Blea Ohed Wheat Flour
35
Wheat Flour
36
Nia Oin
37
Reduced Iran
38
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
39
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
40
Folic Aoid
41
Egg W Hites
42
Egga
43
Skim Milk
44
Coooa Alkali Prooessed
45
Water
46
Leavening
47
Baking Soda
48
Sodium A Oid Py Rophoaphate
49
Monooalolum Phosphate
50
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
51
Milk Derivative
52
Prapy Lene Gly Ool Mono And Diesters Of Fate And Fatty Aoida
53
Modified Tapioca Staroh
54
Mono And Digly Nerides
55
Na Tural And Artifioial Flav Or
56
Modified Carnataroh
57
Poly Sorbate 60
58
Wheat Staroh
59
Guar Gum
60
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
61
Sodium Stearoyl La Oty La Te
62
Soy Leoithin
63
Chooala Te Strawe
64
Ochooolate Liquar
65
Coooa Bufter
66
Butter Oil
67
Emuleifier Soy Le Oithin
68
Na Tural Vanilla
69
Net Ht 15 Az 20

Full Ingredient List

cream cheese loing (sugar, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), vegetable shortening (palm oil, canola oil, mono - and digly oerides), dex trose, containe 2% or lese of eaoh of the following: gream cheese powder (cream cheese solide (cream, nonfat milk, salt, sodium alginete, la otio aoid), corn syrup solida, sodium caseinate (milk), na tural flavor), corn 3taroh, soy bean oil, salt, natural flavor, benz oio a oid (preservative), poly eorbete 80, propyl gallate (antiox idant), beta carofene (color)), chooola te cupceke (sugar, enriohed blea ohed wheat flour (wheat flour, nia oin, reduced iran, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic aoid), egg w hites, soy bean oil, egga, skim milk, coooa alkali prooessed, water, containa leaa than 2% of the following: leavening (baking soda, sodium a oid py rophoaphate, monooalolum phosphate), whey (a milk derivative), prapy lene gly ool mono and diesters of fate and fatty aoida, salt, modified tapioca staroh, mono and digly nerides, na tural and artifioial flav or, sodium caseinate (a milk derivative), modified carnataroh, poly sorbate 60, wheat staroh, guar gum, xanthan gum, sodium stearoyl la oty la te, soy leoithin), chooala te strawe (sugar, ochooolate liquar, coooa bufter, butter oil (milk), emuleifier soy le oithin, na tural vanilla) net ht 15 az 20

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Propyl Gallate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 69-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Propyl Gallate. Open Propyl Gallate
  • Compare Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake'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 0223209804990: 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.