Buddha
by Birds Eye
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0014500009043 · Birds Eye · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buddha by Birds Eye scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 19 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 19-component label is layered, beginning with Cooked Brown Rice And Red Quinda Blend, Water Brow Ed Quinda, Buddha Sauce. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 19 analyzed
- 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
100/100
Grade A+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
N/A
NOVA food-processing classification
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.
00009043 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Buddha label screening desk
1 of 19 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Salt). Source sheet 00009043 · 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: Dark Chocolate with Honey and Almond Nougat · Nearest score peer is Dark Chocolate with Honey and Almond Nougat 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 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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Buddha scores 2.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is roughly typical 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
Buddha lists 19 ingredients on its label
19 76th percentile a longer ingredient list than 76% of the 63,434 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
- 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
Full Ingredient List
COOKED BROWN RICE AND RED QUINDA BLEND (WATER BROW ED QUINDA), BUDDHA SAUCE (WATER TAHINI ROASTED, HULLED AND GROUND EDS), RICE VINEGAR, OLIVE OIL ORGANIC AGAVE SYRUP MISO PASTE (SOYBEA A SALT, KOJI STARTER), LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE CHILI PASTE IRED CHILI STILLED VINEGAR, SALT, GARLIC POWDER MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SAL WDER), BRUSSELS SPROUTS, ROASTED SWEET POTATOES COOKED ORGANIC CHI VATER, ORGANIC CHICKPEAS), ROASTED PUMPKIN SEED KERNELS, KALE ONTAINS: SOY, SESAME ISTRIBUTED BY: Conagra Brands O. BOX 3534 HICAGO, IL 60654 can here for more food information or call 1-888-327-4060. D&D S Questions or commen visit us at www.birds or call 1-888-327-9066 8 smartlabel PAPER CORTE BOX TR Not rec
Other products containing Roasted Pumpkin Seed Kernels
Roasted Pumpkin Seed Kernels is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Buddha
Neighbours outside Birds Eye with screening scores in the same high band as Buddha (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Birds Eye; 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).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (19 on 0014500009043).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Buddha's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 19-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Salt. Open Salt
- Compare Buddha's 0 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 0014500009043: 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.