Italian Cream Cake
by The Cheesecake Factory Bakery
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0785397010213 · The Cheesecake Factory Bakery · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian Cream Cake by The Cheesecake Factory Bakery scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 81 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 81-component record, beginning with Cake Mix, Sugar, Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 81 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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
65/100
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.
97010213 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian Cream Cake label screening desk
25 of 81 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 97010213 · 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: Creamery select premium ice cream, strawberry & homestyle vanilla, strawberry & homestyle vanilla · Nearest score peer is Creamery select premium ice cream, strawberry & homestyle vanilla, strawberry & homestyle vanilla 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.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Italian Cream Cake scores 27.9 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Desserts products
Italian Cream Cake lists 81 ingredients on its label
81 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
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- 40 and above
- 754 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. The comparison here runs against the 11,156 Desserts 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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 81 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
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).
Other products containing Fully Refined And Dewaxed Corn Oil
Fully Refined And Dewaxed Corn Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Italian Cream Cake
Neighbours outside The Cheesecake Factory Bakery near Italian Cream Cake's mid-band score (65/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within The Cheesecake Factory Bakery; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 81 on 0785397010213).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (81 on 0785397010213).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian Cream Cake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 81-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Italian Cream Cake's 3 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 0785397010213: 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.