Concern

Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake

by Duke Food Productions

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0856360005069 · Duke Food Productions · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0856360005069 · Serving size 0.062 CAKE (71 g)

The verdict

Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake by Duke Food Productions scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 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 50-component record, beginning with Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour, Bleached 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.

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

60005069 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 50 ing. REG-PART 34% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 5% LEAD-FLAG Phosphoric Acid PHOTO-FINISH Kathy kaye, popcorn · ±0 BOOK-OFF …005069 · July 2026

17 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 60005069 · 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: Kathy kaye, popcorn balls, sweet & salty · Nearest score peer is Kathy kaye, popcorn balls, sweet & salty 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

1. Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Miss Kay's Homemade Cream…50/1002. Kathy kaye, popcorn balls, sweet & salty: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Kathy kaye, popcorn balls…50/1003. Kathy kaye, sweet n' salty popcorn balls: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Kathy kaye, sweet n' salt…50/1004. Kathy kaye, popcorn balls: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Kathy kaye, popcorn balls50/1005. Kathy kaye, soft n' buttery popcorn cake: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Kathy kaye, soft n' butte…50/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake (50/100 on 50 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake
50/100
Kathy kaye, popcorn balls, sweet & salty
50/100
Kathy kaye, sweet n' salty popcorn balls
50/100
Kathy kaye, popcorn balls
50/100
Kathy kaye, soft n' buttery popcorn cake
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. Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake 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

Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake lists 50 ingredients on its label

50 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% 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%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 50 (95th 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 50 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
2
Enriched Wheat Flour
3
Bleached Wheat Flour
4
Enrichment
5
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Iron
7
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
9
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
10
Malted Barley Flour
11
Eggs
12
Margarine
13
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
14
Liquid Soybean Oil
15
Skim Milk
16
Cultured Skim Milk
17
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
18
Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides And Soy Lecithin
19
Emulsifiers
20
Sodium Benzoate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FUMIGANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
21
Vitamin A Palmitate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
22
Colored With Beta Carotene
23
Source Of Vitamin A
24
Artificial Flavor
25
Dried Cream Cheese
26
Pasteurized Milk And Cream
27
Cheese Culture
28
Stabilizers
29
Carob Bean
30
Xanthan
31
Guar Gums
32
Orange Concentrate
33
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
34
High-fructose corn syrup
Sweetener
Cut Back
35
Orange Peel
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, TEXTURIZER
Listed
36
Water
37
Orange Juice Concentrate
38
Natural Flavor
39
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
40
Sodium Citrate
41
Pectin
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
42
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
43
Preservative
44
Sodium Erythorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
Safe GRAS
45
Yellow 5
Avoid Approved (certified color)
46
Yellow 6
Avoid Approved (certified color)
47
Orange Extract
48
Vanilla Flavor
49
Baking Soda
50
Cellulose Gum

Full Ingredient List

Sugar, enriched wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, enrichment [niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid], malted barley flour), eggs, margarine (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, liquid soybean oil, skim milk, cultured skim milk, salt, vegetable mono and diglycerides and soy lecithin [emulsifiers], sodium benzoate [to preserve freshness], vitamin a palmitate, colored with beta carotene [source of vitamin a], artificial flavor), cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, stabilizers [carob bean and/or xanthan and/or guar gums]), orange concentrate (corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, orange peel, water, sugar, orange juice concentrate, natural flavor, phosphoric acid, sodium citrate, pectin, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preservative), sodium erythorbate, yellow 5, yellow 6), contains 2% or less of the following: orange extract, vanilla flavor, baking soda, cellulose gum.

Other products containing Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides And Soy Lecithin

Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides And Soy Lecithin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes Pound Cake

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Neighbours outside Duke Food Productions near Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake's mid-band score (50/100). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Duke Food Productions; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 50-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
  • Compare Miss Kay's Homemade Cream Cheese Pound Cake'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 0856360005069: 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.