Concern

Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn

by Kansas Department Of Agriculture

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0812711020167 · Kansas Department Of Agriculture · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0812711020167 · Serving size 1 cup (30 g)

The verdict

Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn by Kansas Department Of Agriculture scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 33-component record, beginning with Sugar, Popcorn, Light Corn Syrup. 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.

50/100
Concern safety score
2
Few flagged · of 33 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.

11020167 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 33 ing. REG-SPARSE 27% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 16% LEAD-FLAG Phosphoric Acid PHOTO-FINISH Potato & Cauliflower · ±0 BOOK-OFF …020167 · July 2026

9 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 11020167 · 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: Potato & Cauliflower Veggie Taters, Potato & Cauliflower · Nearest score peer is Potato & Cauliflower Veggie Taters, Potato & Cauliflower 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.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn50/1002. Potato & Cauliflower Veggie Taters, Potato & Cauliflower: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Potato & Cauliflower Vegg…50/1003. Crav'Em Snacks, Ripple Potato Chips, Sour Cream & Cheddar: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Crav'Em Snacks, Ripple Po…50/1004. Good Livin', Gummi Worms: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Good Livin', Gummi Worms50/1005. Good Livin', Gummi Bears: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Good Livin', Gummi Bears50/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn (50/100 on 33 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn
50/100
Potato & Cauliflower Veggie Taters, Potato & Cauliflower
50/100
Crav'Em Snacks, Ripple Potato Chips, Sour Cream & Cheddar
50/100
Good Livin', Gummi Worms
50/100
Good Livin', Gummi Bears
50/100

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. Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn scores 36.1 points below that category average (50/100 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

Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn lists 33 ingredients on its label

33 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% 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%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 33 (84th 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 50/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 33 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Popcorn
3
Light Corn Syrup
4
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
5
Natural Flavor
6
Vegetable Oil Spread
7
Vegetable Oil Blend
8
Liquid Soybean Oil
9
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
10
Water
11
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
12
Phosphoric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FUMIGANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
Cut Back GRAS
13
Natural And Artificial Flavor
14
Vitamin A Palmitate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
15
Beta Carotene
16
Flaxseed Oil
17
Coconut Oil
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Listed
18
Tbhq And Citric Acid
19
Peanut Butter
20
Roasted Peanuts
21
Vegetable Oils
22
Cottonseed And Rapeseed
23
Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil
24
Butter
25
Cream
26
Cocoa Powder
27
Baking Soda
28
Vanilla Extract
29
Yellow 5
Avoid Approved (certified color)
30
Yellow 6
Avoid Approved (certified color)
31
Lecithin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
32
Sunflower Oil
33
Artificial Butter Flavor

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, popcorn, light corn syrup (light corn syrup, salt, natural flavor), vegetable oil spread (vegetable oil blend [liquid soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil], water, salt, dried whey, vegetable mono - and diglycerides and soy lecithin. potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate [to preserve freshness], phosphoric acid, natural and artificial flavor, vitamin a palmitate, beta carotene, flaxseed oil), coconut oil (coconut oil, tbhq and citric acid [to preserve freshness]), peanut butter (roasted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oils [cottonseed and rapeseed], salt, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil), butter (cream, salt), cocoa powder, baking soda, vanilla extract, yellow 5, yellow 6), lecithin (sunflower oil, lecithin, artificial butter flavor).

Categories

Snacks

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn

Neighbours outside Kansas Department Of Agriculture near Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn's mid-band score (50/100). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Kansas Department Of Agriculture; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 33-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
  • Compare Cashmere, Gourmet Popcorn'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 0812711020167: 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.