Caution

Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat

by Kroger

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0011110618337 · Kroger. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0011110618337 · Serving size 0.5 cup (226 g)

The verdict

Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat by Kroger scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 41-component record, beginning with Water, Pollock, Potato Starch. 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.

80/100
Caution safety score
2
Few flagged · of 41 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0011110618337
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

57/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

80/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

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.

10618337 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 80/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 41 ing. REG-PART 39% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 6% LEAD-FLAG Sorbitol PHOTO-FINISH Heritage Farm Honey · ±0 BOOK-OFF …618337 · July 2026

16 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 10618337 · 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: Heritage Farm Honey Smoked Ham · Nearest score peer is Heritage Farm Honey Smoked Ham 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

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

1. Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Crab Select Imitation Cra…80/1002. Heritage Farm Honey Smoked Ham: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Heritage Farm Honey Smoke…80/1003. Loaded Baked Potato Style Soup: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Loaded Baked Potato Style…80/1004. Italian Sausage Tortelloni: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Italian Sausage Tortelloni80/1005. Smoked Flavored Cherry & Cheddar Salad Bowl with Pork & Bacon: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Smoked Flavored Cherry & …80/100
High-band neighbours for Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat (80/100) outside Kroger.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat
80/100
Heritage Farm Honey Smoked Ham
80/100
Loaded Baked Potato Style Soup
80/100
Italian Sausage Tortelloni
80/100
Smoked Flavored Cherry & Cheddar Salad Bowl with Pork & Bacon
80/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat lists 41 ingredients on its label

41 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 41 (94th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
6,050 products (2%)
2–4
24,522 products (7%)
4–6
31,054 products (9%)
6–8
30,981 products (9%)
8–10
31,618 products (9%)
10–12
29,943 products (8%)
12–14
28,403 products (8%)
14–16
27,417 products (8%)
16–18
24,508 products (7%)
18–20
19,062 products (5%)
20–22
14,679 products (4%)
22–24
12,238 products (3%)
24–26
10,830 products (3%)
26–28
9,344 products (3%)
28–30
7,955 products (2%)
30–32
6,753 products (2%)
32–34
5,918 products (2%)
34–36
5,282 products (1%)
36–38
4,531 products (1%)
38–40
4,063 products (1%)
40 and above
24,241 products (7%)

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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 80/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Water
2
Pollock
3
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
4
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
5
Egg Whites
6
Sorbitol
Sweetener
Cut Back
7
Wheat Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
8
Corn Starch
9
Natural And Artificial Flavor
10
Extracts Of Blue Crab
11
Snow Crab And Alaska Pollock
12
Mirin
13
Rice
14
Alcohol
15
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
16
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
17
Yeast Extract
18
Sea salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
19
Pollock Oil
20
Soy Protein
21
Sodium Tripolyphosphate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
22
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
23
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
24
Hydrolyzed Corn Protein
25
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
26
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid
27
Disodium Inosinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Approved
28
Disodium Guanylate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Approved
29
Sodium Pyrophosphate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
30
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
31
Titanium Dioxide
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TRACER
Avoid Prior Sanctioned
32
Color
33
Paprika Oleoresin
34
Annatto
Coloring
Certain People Should Avoid
35
Soy Lecithin
36
Fish
37
Crab
38
Lobster
39
Egg
40
Wheat
41
Soy

Full Ingredient List

water, pollock, potato starch, sugar, egg whites, sorbitol, wheat starch, modified corn starch, contains less than 2% of the following: natural and artificial flavor, extracts of blue crab, snow crab and Alaska pollock, mirin (rice, water, alcohol, salt, corn syrup, yeast extract), sea salt, pollock oil, soy protein, sodium tripolyphosphate, carrageenan, hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolyzed corn protein, hydrolyzed wheat protein, autolyzed yeast extract, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, sodium pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, titanium dioxide (color), paprika oleoresin (color), annatto (color), soy lecithin, contains: fish, crab, lobster, egg, wheat, soy

High-score cross-brand comparables for Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat

Neighbours outside Kroger with screening scores in the same high band as Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kroger; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
  • Compare Crab Select Imitation Crab Meat's 2 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 0011110618337: 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.