Original cream cheesecake
Original cream cheesecake by Sara Lee has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Desserts / Frozen foods / Frozen desserts
How This Score Is Built
Original cream cheesecake draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Original cream cheesecake sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
Strawberries, sugar, enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), bakers cheese (cultured skim milk, enzymes), neufchatel cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), eggs, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean and cottonseed oils), whole wheat flour. contains 2% or less: modified corn starch, whey, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), skim milk protein concentrate, corn starch, salt, natural and artificial flavors, molasses, cinnamon, citric acid, sodium alginate, gums (xanthan, carob bean), caramel color, glucose syrup, konjac flour, dextrose, carrageenan, colored with caramel color & red 40, soy flour.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Original cream cheesecake: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Sara Lee
- Barcode
- 0032100020169
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Original cream cheesecake rank on ingredient safety?
Original cream cheesecake scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.8/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Original cream cheesecake's 3.8/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk 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.