Alfredo Pasta & Sauce
by Kroger
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0011110020048 · Kroger · Null. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Alfredo Pasta & Sauce by Kroger scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 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 41-component record, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product, Wheat Flour, 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 41 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.
10020048 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Alfredo Pasta & Sauce label screening desk
13 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Disodium Inosinate). Source sheet 10020048 · 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: Psst..., Parmesan Pasta & Sauce · Nearest score peer is Psst..., Parmesan Pasta & Sauce at the same screening score.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,202 products we've scored in the Null category, the average safety score is 95.1/100. Alfredo Pasta & Sauce scores 4.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 95.1/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Null products
Alfredo Pasta & Sauce lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 1,052 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 33 products (3%)
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- 56 products (5%)
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- 119 products (11%)
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- 47 products (4%)
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- 2 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 23 products (2%)
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 1,052 Null 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
ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CORN STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, PARMESAN CHEESE POWDER (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES], WHEY, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID), ROMANO CHEESE POWDER (ROMANO CHEESE [FROM SHEEP'S AND COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], BUTTERMILK, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, SALT), HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, SALT, SUGAR, SHORTENING POWDER (WHEY POWDER, SODIUM CASEINATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), CREAM CHEESE POWDER (CREAM CHEESE [CREAM, MILK, SKIM MILK, WHEY, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES]), ONION*, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISOIDUM GYANYLATE, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, SPICES. * DEHYDRATED.
Other products containing Spices. Dehydrated
Spices. Dehydrated is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Alfredo Pasta & Sauce
Neighbours outside Kroger with screening scores in the same high band as Alfredo Pasta & Sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kroger; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0011110020048).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Alfredo Pasta & Sauce has a longer ingredient list than 98% of its Null category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Disodium Inosinate first, then work through the remaining 41 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 0011110020048: 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.