Imitation crab meat - flake style
by Kroger
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0011110618344 · Kroger · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Imitation crab meat - flake style by Kroger scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 25 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 25-component label is layered, beginning with Alaska Pollock, Water, Organic Pea Starch. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 25 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
10618344 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Imitation crab meat - flake style label screening desk
11 of 25 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 10618344 · 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: Old World Calabrese Salami Deli Sliced · Nearest score peer is Old World Calabrese Salami Deli Sliced 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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 5,679 products we've scored in the Seafood category, the average safety score is 99.2/100. Imitation crab meat - flake style scores 14.2 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 99.2/100), 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 Seafood products
Imitation crab meat - flake style lists 25 ingredients on its label
25 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 4,524 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 39 products (1%)
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- 1,326 products (29%)
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- 1,158 products (26%)
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- 327 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 167 products (4%)
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- 156 products (3%)
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- 185 products (4%)
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- 124 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 112 products (2%)
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- 74 products (2%)
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- 25 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 25 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Alaska Pollock, water, pea starch, sugar, sorbitol, potato starch, natural and artificial flavor (extracts of blue crab, snow crab, lobster, and Alaska Pollock), refined fish oil (Alaska Pollock), rice wine (water, rice, koji), egg whites, modified tapioca starch, sea salt, potassium chloride, disodium inosinate, sodium pyrophosphate, titanium dioxide (for color), carmine (for color), canthaxanthin (for color).
Other products containing Canthaxanthin
Canthaxanthin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 24 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Imitation crab meat - flake style
Neighbours outside Kroger with screening scores in the same high band as Imitation crab meat - flake style (85/100 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 (1 flagged of 25 on 0011110618344).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (25 on 0011110618344).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Imitation crab meat - flake style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 25-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Imitation crab meat - flake style's 1 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 0011110618344: 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.