Concern

Creamy Frosting

by Pinnacle Foods Group Llc

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644209004140 · Pinnacle Foods Group Llc · Baking-decorations. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0644209004140 · Serving size 2 Tbsp (35 g)

The verdict

Creamy Frosting by Pinnacle Foods Group Llc scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Vegetable Oil Shortening, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Cottonseed Oils. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

50/100
Concern safety score
2
Few flagged · of 18 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

33/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

50/100

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.

09004140 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Creamy Frosting label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-LAYERED 18 ing. REG-PART 50% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 23% LEAD-FLAG Polysorbate 60 PHOTO-FINISH Classic yellow cake · ±0 BOOK-OFF …004140 · July 2026

9 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 09004140 · 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: Classic yellow cake mix · Nearest score peer is Classic yellow cake mix at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.

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.

A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Creamy Frosting: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Creamy Frosting50/1002. Classic yellow cake mix: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Classic yellow cake mix50/1003. Butter golden cake mix, butter golden imp: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Butter golden cake mix, b…50/1004. Dolly Parton's Yellow Cake Mix: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Dolly Parton's Yellow Cak…50/1005. Duncan hines, perfect size, lemon bliss cake & frosting mix, lemon, lemon: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Duncan hines, perfect siz…50/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Creamy Frosting (50/100 on 18 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Creamy Frosting
50/100
Classic yellow cake mix
50/100
Butter golden cake mix, butter golden imp
50/100
Dolly Parton's Yellow Cake Mix
50/100
Duncan hines, perfect size, lemon bliss cake & frosting mix, lemon, lemon
50/100

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. Creamy Frosting scores 15.2 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 65.2/100), 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 Baking-decorations products

Creamy Frosting lists 18 ingredients on its label

18 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% of the 2,313 products we track

0–2: 13 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 46 products (2%). Below this entry. 4–6: 171 products (7%). Below this entry. 6–8: 322 products (14%). Below this entry. 8–10: 264 products (11%). Below this entry. 10–12: 335 products (14%). Below this entry. 12–14: 253 products (11%). Below this entry. 14–16: 201 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 186 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 161 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. 20–22: 106 products (5%). Above this entry. 22–24: 78 products (3%). Above this entry. 24–26: 69 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 41 products (2%). Above this entry. 28–30: 28 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 13 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 8 products (0%). Above this entry. 34–36: 3 products (0%). Above this entry. 36–38: 3 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 4 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8 products (0%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Baking-decorations 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

2,313 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 18 (77th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
13 products (1%)
2–4
46 products (2%)
4–6
171 products (7%)
6–8
322 products (14%)
8–10
264 products (11%)
10–12
335 products (14%)
12–14
253 products (11%)
14–16
201 products (9%)
16–18
186 products (8%)
18–20
161 products (7%)
20–22
106 products (5%)
22–24
78 products (3%)
24–26
69 products (3%)
26–28
41 products (2%)
28–30
28 products (1%)
30–32
13 products (1%)
32–34
8 products (0%)
34–36
3 products (0%)
36–38
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 50/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, vegetable oil shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, mono - and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), water, corn syrup. contains 2% or less of: corn starch, salt, artificial colors, natural and artificial flavor, preservative (potassium sorbate), sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid, sodium citrate, yellow 5, red 40.

Categories

Baking-decorations

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Creamy Frosting

Neighbours outside Pinnacle Foods Group Llc near Creamy Frosting's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Pinnacle Foods Group Llc; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Creamy Frosting's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
  • Compare Creamy Frosting's 2 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 0644209004140: 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.