Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake
Contains 1 flagged ingredient
Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake receives a safety score of 85/100 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
Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake carries a composite safety score of 85/100, which we classify as "Caution" 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, Food Lion Traditional Cream Cheese Icing Cupcake 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.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 85/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 1 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | Not available | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
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
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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