Safe

Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese

by The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0855312004020 · The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0855312004020 · Serving size 1 ONZ (30 g)

The verdict

Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese by The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 6 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 6-component label led by Cashew Nuts, Filtered Water, Green Peppercorns; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 6 analyzed
Group 3
Processed foods
B
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

80/100

Grade A-

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 3

Processed foods

Nutrition Grade

B

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.

12004020 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 6 ing. REG-SPARSE 17% reg. NOVA-G3 G3 processed NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-LONG Len top 64% LEAD-FLAG Sea salt PHOTO-FINISH Scallion French-Style Soft · ±0 BOOK-OFF …004020 · July 2026

1 of 6 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sea salt). Source sheet 12004020 · 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: Scallion French-Style Soft Cheese · Nearest score peer is Scallion French-Style Soft Cheese at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

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

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.

The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Sea Salt and Pepper Frenc…100/1002. Scallion French-Style Soft Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Scallion French-Style Sof…100/1003. Herb-Garlic French-Style Soft Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Herb-Garlic French-Style …100/1004. Chive & Onion Cashew Cream Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Chive & Onion Cashew Crea…100/1005. Plain Cashew Cream Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Plain Cashew Cream Cheese100/100
High-band neighbours for Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese (100/100) outside The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline.
Chart values as text

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

Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese
100/100
Scallion French-Style Soft Cheese
100/100
Herb-Garlic French-Style Soft Cheese
100/100
Chive & Onion Cashew Cream Cheese
100/100
Plain Cashew Cream Cheese
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese scores 2.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.8/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Dairies products

Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese lists 6 ingredients on its label

6 36th percentile a longer ingredient list than 36% of the 21,438 products we track

0–2: 120 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,805 products (13%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,714 products (22%). Below this entry. 6–8: 2,694 products (13%). This entry sits in this band. 8–10: 1,996 products (9%). Above this entry. 10–12: 1,884 products (9%). Above this entry. 12–14: 1,734 products (8%). Above this entry. 14–16: 1,639 products (8%). Above this entry. 16–18: 1,261 products (6%). Above this entry. 18–20: 841 products (4%). Above this entry. 20–22: 481 products (2%). Above this entry. 22–24: 303 products (1%). Above this entry. 24–26: 228 products (1%). Above this entry. 26–28: 151 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 122 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 115 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 81 products (0%). Above this entry. 34–36: 57 products (0%). Above this entry. 36–38: 45 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 33 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 134 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Dairies 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

21,438 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 6 (36th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
120 products (1%)
2–4
2,805 products (13%)
4–6
4,714 products (22%)
6–8
2,694 products (13%)
8–10
1,996 products (9%)
10–12
1,884 products (9%)
12–14
1,734 products (8%)
14–16
1,639 products (8%)
16–18
1,261 products (6%)
18–20
841 products (4%)
20–22
481 products (2%)
22–24
303 products (1%)
24–26
228 products (1%)
26–28
151 products (1%)
28–30
122 products (1%)
30–32
115 products (1%)
32–34
81 products (0%)
34–36
57 products (0%)
36–38
45 products (0%)
38–40
33 products (0%)
40 and above
134 products (1%)

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 21,438 Dairies products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Cashew nuts, filtered water, green peppercorns, sea salt, lemon juice, l. acidophilus.

Categories

Dairies Fermented foods Fermented milk products Cheeses

High-score cross-brand comparables for Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese

Neighbours outside The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline with screening scores in the same high band as Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese (100/100 here). The 3 same-brand links above stay within The Gardener Cheese Company Inc., Treeline; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sea salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 6-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sea salt. Open Sea salt
  • Compare Sea Salt and Pepper French-Style Soft Cheese's 0 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 0855312004020: 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.