Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce
by Birds Eye
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0014500005489 · Birds Eye. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce by Birds Eye scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 38 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 38-component record, beginning with Broccoli, Roasted Gold Potatoes, 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 38 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
50/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
00005489 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce label screening desk
8 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00005489 · 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: Gingerbread Men · Nearest score peer is Gingerbread Men at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce lists 38 ingredients on its label
38 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 359,392 products 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
- 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 38 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
BROCCOLI, ROASTED GOLD POTATOES, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: WHEY, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHEESE BASE (WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], BUTTER, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, NATURAL FLAVOR, ENZYME MODIFIED CHEESE [CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES, XANTHAN GUM]), SALT, WHEAT FLOUR, NATURAL CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVOR (CHEDDAR, SEMI-SOFT AND BLUE CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, SALT, CITRIC ACID), HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL FLAVOR (HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, DEXTROSE), BLUE CHEESE (MIL, STARTER CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, BLUE MOLD SPORES), WATER, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT AND ENZYMES), ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6.
More from Birds Eye
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce
Neighbours outside Birds Eye near Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Birds Eye; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 38 on 0014500005489).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (38 on 0014500005489).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 38-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Roasted Potatoes & Broccoli In Cheese Sauce'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 0014500005489: 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.