BAKED ZITI
by Stouffer's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0013800197368 · Stouffer's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
BAKED ZITI by Stouffer's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 38 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 38-component record, beginning with Water, Tomato Paste, Cooked Beef. 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 38 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
00197368 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
BAKED ZITI label screening desk
13 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Autolyzed yeast extract). Source sheet 00197368 · 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: Pimientos Diced · Nearest score peer is Pimientos Diced 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 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.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. BAKED ZITI 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
BAKED ZITI lists 38 ingredients on its label
38 56th percentile a longer ingredient list than 56% 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
Sauce: water, tomato paste, cooked beef, tomatoes, onions, tomato juice, rendered beef fat, modified cornstarch, sugar, salt, garlic puree, potassium chloride, spices, molasses, bleached wheat flour, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), autolyzed yeast extract, mono - and diglycerides, dextrose, citric acid, calcium chloride, soybean oil. cooked enriched pasta: water, semolina wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid. cheese: part-skim mozzarella cheese and modified cornstarch (part-skim mozzarella cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], modified cornstarch, skim milk, flavors), parmesan and asiago cheese blend with flavor (parmesan and asiago cheeses [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], enzyme modified parmesan cheese [cultured milk, water, salt, enzymes], whey, salt).
Other products containing Part-skim Mozzarella Cheese And Modified Cornstarch
Part-skim Mozzarella Cheese And Modified Cornstarch is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 31 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for BAKED ZITI
Neighbours outside Stouffer's with screening scores in the same high band as BAKED ZITI (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Stouffer's; 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 (38 on 0013800197368).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
13 of 38 parsed ingredients on BAKED ZITI match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
- Review Autolyzed yeast extract as the most distinctive source-covered entry on this label. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this product with a nearby cross-brand screening score. Compare labels
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0013800197368: 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.