Ham Salad
by Giant Eagle
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0003003403845 · Giant Eagle · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ham Salad by Giant Eagle scores 5/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 47 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 47-component record, beginning with Smoked Chopped Ham, Ham, Water. 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.
- 5/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 47 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
15/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
5/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
03403845 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ham Salad label screening desk
19 of 47 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 03403845 · 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: Fruit Punch Drink Mix, Fruit Punch · Nearest score peer is Fruit Punch Drink Mix, Fruit Punch at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Ham Salad scores 88.6 points below that category average (5/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Ham Salad lists 47 ingredients on its label
47 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 11,283 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 412 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 477 products (4%)
- 16–18
- 542 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 552 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 574 products (5%)
- 30–32
- 517 products (5%)
- 32–34
- 466 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 451 products (4%)
- 36–38
- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 5/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 47 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Smoked chopped ham (ham, water, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, dextrose, potassium lactate, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, flavoring), salad dressing (soybean oil, water, sugar, egg yolks [egg yolks, salt], white distilled vinegar, sea salt, modified potato starch, lemon juice, fruit and vegetable juice [color], xanthan gum), sweet relish (pickles, corn syrup, distilled vinegar, water, salt, red peppers, xanthan gum, natural flavors, calcium chloride, polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate, yellow 5), onions, sugar, cracker meal (bleached wheat flour), cultured dextrose, citric acid, sodium diacetate, xanthan gum, color (water, propylene glycol, red 40, red 3, propylparaben [preservative]), yellow color (propylene glycol and polysorbate 80 [preservatives], turmeric oleoresin and annatto extract [colors]).
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Ham Salad
Neighbours outside Giant Eagle in the same lower screening band as Ham Salad (5/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Giant Eagle; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 47 on 0003003403845).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (47 on 0003003403845).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Ham Salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 47-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
- Compare Ham Salad's 5 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 0003003403845: 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.