Caution

Gourmet italian cookies

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0600559013461 · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0600559013461 · Serving size 1 COOKIE (14 g)

The verdict

Gourmet italian cookies scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 64 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 64-component record, beginning with Unbleached Unbromated Bread Flour, Wheat Flour, Organic Malted Barley. 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.

75/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 64 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

45/100

Grade D

Ingredient Safety

75/100

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.

59013461 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Gourmet italian cookies label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 75/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 64 ing. REG-SPARSE 17% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Yellow 5 PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …013461 · July 2026

11 of 64 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 5). Source sheet 59013461 · 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.

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.

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. Gourmet italian cookies scores 11.1 points below that category average (75/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Gourmet italian cookies lists 64 ingredients on its label

64 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% 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

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Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 64 (99th 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 75/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 64 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Unbleached Unbromated Bread Flour
2
Wheat Flour
3
Organic Malted Barley
4
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
5
Reduced Iron
6
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
9
Bbs All Purpose Trans Fat Free Vegetable Shortening
10
Palm Oil
11
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
12
Water
13
Cake Flour
14
Bleached Wheat Flour
15
Whole Eggs
16
Margarine
17
Soybean Oil
18
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
19
Mono And Di-glycerides
20
Soybean Lecithin
21
Natural Flavor
22
Annatto Color
23
Vitamin A Palmitate Added
24
Butter
25
Pistachio Flavor
26
Propylene Glycol
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
27
Alcohol
28
Acacia Gum
29
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
30
Yellow 5
Avoid Approved (certified color)
31
Fd&c Blue #1 And Caramel Color
32
Natural Strawberry Flavor
33
Organic Invert Syrup
34
Fd&c #40
35
Lemon Yellow Color
36
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
37
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
38
Lemon Oil
39
Vanilla Flavor
40
Natural Butter Flavor
41
Cottonseed Oil
42
Sprinkles
43
Vegetable Oil
44
Palm Kernel
45
Coconut And Palm Oils
46
Corn Starch
47
Cocoa Powder
48
Soy Lecithin
49
Emulsifier
50
Artificial Flavor And Color
51
Confectioners Glaze
52
F.d.c. Colors Lake Yellow #5
53
Lake Yellow #6
54
Fd & C Lake Blue #1
55
Fd&c Red #40 & Fd&c Red #3
56
Natural Chocolate
57
Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil
58
Cocoa Processed With Alkali And Cocoa
59
Buttermilk
60
Dairy Oil
61
Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oil
62
Soya Lecithin
63
Added As An Emulsifier
64
Natural And Artificial Flavors

Full Ingredient List

Unbleached unbromated bread flour (wheat flour, malted barley, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), bbs all purpose trans fat free vegetable shortening (palm oil), sugar, water, cake flour (bleached wheat flour), whole eggs, margarine (soybean oil, palm oil, salt, mono and di-glycerides, soybean lecithin, natural flavor, annatto color, vitamin a palmitate added), butter, salt, pistachio flavor (propylene glycol, alcohol, acacia gum, xanthan gum, fd&c yellow #5, fd&c blue #1 and caramel color), strawberry flavor (invert syrup, fd&c #40), lemon yellow color (sodium benzoate, citric acid), lemon oil, vanilla flavor, annatto color, butter flavor (cottonseed oil), sprinkles (hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel, coconut and palm oils), corn starch, cocoa powder, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), artificial flavor and color, confectioners glaze, f.d.c. colors lake yellow #5, lake yellow #6, fd & c lake blue #1, fd&c red #40 & fd&c red #3), chocolate (partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali and natural cocoa, buttermilk, dairy oil, partially hydrogenated palm oil, soya lecithin (added as an emulsifier), natural and artificial flavors)

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Biscuits

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Yellow 5 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gourmet italian cookies's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 64-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 5. Open Yellow 5
  • Compare Gourmet italian cookies'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 0600559013461: 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.