Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0003003410550 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 65 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 65-component record, beginning with Bleached Wheat Flour, Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce, Cheese Whey. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 65 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
03410550 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites label screening desk
18 of 65 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel). Source sheet 03410550 · 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
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.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Frozen foods products
Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites lists 65 ingredients on its label
65 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 319 products (5%)
- 36–38
- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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
Full Ingredient List
Bleached wheat flour, sharp cheddar cheese sauce (cheese whey, water, palm oil, modified tapioca starch, modified food starch, cheddar cheese [milk cultures, salt, enzymes] maltodextrin, sodium phosphate, salt, vinegar, sodium stearoyl lactylate, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, mono - and diglycerides, phosphoric acid, annatto color, carotene color, paprika color), elbow macaroni (water, durum wheat semolina, [enriched with iron {ferrous sulfate}] and b vitamin [niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]), bleached wheat flour, vegetable (soybean and/or canola oil), pasteurized processed cheese (cultured milk, water, cream, buttermilk, sodium phosphate, salt, vegetable color, enzymes), dehydrated cheese blend (cheddar, romano [milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes], disodium phosphate), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), wheat starch, food starch modified, cornstarch modified, yellow corn flour, water, salt, sugar, dried whey, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate), dextrose, caramel (color), dried yeast, egg whites, guar gum, nonfat milk, soy flour.
Other products containing Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce
Sharp Cheddar Cheese Sauce is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Restaurant style mac 'n cheese bites has a longer ingredient list than 92% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Caramel first, then work through the remaining 65 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0003003410550: 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.