Hearty baked mashed potatoes
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0011140281624 · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hearty baked mashed potatoes scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 61 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 61-component record, beginning with Potato, Dry, Salt. 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.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 61 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
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.
40281624 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hearty baked mashed potatoes label screening desk
20 of 61 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 40281624 · 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
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Hearty baked mashed potatoes scores 57.7 points below that category average (40/100 vs. 97.7/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products
Hearty baked mashed potatoes lists 61 ingredients on its label
61 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product 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
- 3,907 products (6%)
- 2–4
- 7,921 products (12%)
- 4–6
- 8,845 products (14%)
- 6–8
- 7,032 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 6,320 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 4,190 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 3,449 products (5%)
- 14–16
- 3,051 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 2,493 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 2,053 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 1,808 products (3%)
- 22–24
- 1,758 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 1,623 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 1,606 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 1,360 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 1,198 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,081 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 901 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 649 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 534 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 1,655 products (3%)
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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages 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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 61 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Potato (dry), salt, maltodextrin, vegetable shortening powder (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, lactose, sodium caseinate, dipotassium phosphate), contains 2% or less of: sour cream powder [sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), culture nonfat milk, citric acid and tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate (to help protect flavor)], enzyme modified milk, imitation bacon [textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel color, red 3), soybean oil, water, salt, artificial flavoring (hydrolyzed corn-soy-wheat protein, autolyzed yeast extract, partially hydrogenated soybean/cottonseed oils, thiamine hydrochloride, dextrose, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, artificial flavor), sugar, natural smoke flavors, caramel color, corn syrup, maple syrup], sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean, cottonseed), artificial flavor, vegetable mono and diglycerides, artificial color, spice and coloring, onion, bacon type flavor, whey, cheddar cheese and blue cheese powder (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), reduced lactose whey, maltodextrin, canola oil, salt; disodium phosphate, nonfat milk, citric acid, artificial color (yellow 5 and yellow 6), chives, canola oil (preserved with citric acid and bht), lactic acid, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid, freshness preserved with sodium bisulfite, bha, bht.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hearty baked mashed potatoes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 61-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Hearty baked mashed potatoes's 4 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 0011140281624: 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.