Italian Cream Cake
by The Cheesecake Factory Bakery
Contains 3 flagged ingredients
Italian Cream Cake by The Cheesecake Factory Bakery receives a safety score of 65/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 3 ingredients 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
Italian Cream Cake by The Cheesecake Factory Bakery carries a composite safety score of 65/100, which we classify as "Concern" 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 3 flagged ingredients 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, Italian Cream Cake 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. The Nutri-Score grade of E reflects nutritional balance — calories, saturated fat, sugar, sodium versus fiber, protein, and produce content — which again is a distinct dimension from additive safety and worth weighing alongside the scores above.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 65/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 3 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | E | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Cake mix (sugar, bleached enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], vegetable shortening [palm oil, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate], whey [milk], modified food starch, sodium aluminum phosphate, baking soda, salt, natural & artificial flavor [contains egg], xanthan gum), cream (nonfat milk, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 80), eggs, cream cheese (pasteurized cultured milk, cream, salt, stabilizers [xanthan, carob bean, and/or guar gums]), corn oil (fully refined and dewaxed corn oil), non-dairy whipped topping (water, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, carbohydrate gum, polysorbate 60, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, salt, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, xanthan gum, natural flavor colored with beta carotene), water, mascarpone cheese (pasteurized milk, cream, citric acid), vanilla crunch (bleached wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, baking soda), sugar, powdered sugar (sugar, cornstarch), lemon juice, lemon zest, flour (enriched bleached wheat flour [niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]), butter (cream, natural flavoring), vanilla crumb (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], sugar, palm oil, dextrose, whey, salt, natural & artificial flavor, baking soda), vanilla powder (dextrose, wheat starch, palm oil, natural flavor), pork gelatin, modified food starch, lemon compound (sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice concentrate, water, modified cornstarch, citric acid, lemon flavor, lemon extract, yellow 5, ascorbic acid), vanillin (glucose, water, ethyl alcohol, vanillin, propylene glycol).
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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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