Cream Cheese
Cream Cheese by Meijer has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.7 out of 5, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Dairies / Fermented foods / Fermented milk products / Cheeses
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Cream Cheese have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Cream Cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.7 Top 18% higher than 82% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Pasteurized milk and cream, pasteurized skim milk, cheese culture, sodium citrate*, salt, guar gum, modified food starch*, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, natural flavor*, vitamin a palmitate, enzymes.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cream Cheese: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.7/5.
- Potato Bacon Breakfast Δ 0.0 pts · The Kwikery 4.7/511 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Blended Cultured Soymilk Δ 0.0 pts · Silk 4.7/57 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Meijer
- Barcode
- 0041250948858
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Meijer
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Frequently asked questions
How does Cream Cheese's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.7/5, Cream Cheese sits ahead of 82% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.7/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Cream Cheese's 4.7/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.