Safe

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce

by Birds Eye

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0014500013453 · Birds Eye. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0014500013453 · Serving size 112.99999999999999g

The verdict

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce by Birds Eye scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 30 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 30-component label is layered, beginning with Broccoli, Cheese Sauce, Water. 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 30 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

78/100

Grade B+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

00013453 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 30 ing. REG-SPARSE 20% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-SHORT Len top 14% LEAD-RARE Autolyzed yeast extract PHOTO-FINISH Sweet & Sour · ±0 BOOK-OFF …013453 · July 2026

6 of 30 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Autolyzed yeast extract). Source sheet 00013453 · 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: Sweet & Sour Chicken · Nearest score peer is Sweet & Sour Chicken 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.

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

1. Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Lightly Sauced Broccoli W…100/1002. Sweet & Sour Chicken: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Sweet & Sour Chicken100/1003. Lightly seasoned southwestern style rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Lightly seasoned southwes…100/1004. Brown & Wild Rice Selects With Broccoli & Carrots: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Brown & Wild Rice Selects…100/1005. Tri Color Pepper & Onion Blend: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Tri Color Pepper & Onion …100/100
High-band neighbours for Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce (100/100) outside Birds Eye.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce
100/100
Sweet & Sour Chicken
100/100
Lightly seasoned southwestern style rice
100/100
Brown & Wild Rice Selects With Broccoli & Carrots
100/100
Tri Color Pepper & Onion Blend
100/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce lists 30 ingredients on its label

30 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 30 (86th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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

1
Broccoli
2
Cheese Sauce
3
Water
4
Cheddar Cheese
5
Pasteurized Whole Milk
6
Cheese Cultures
7
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
8
Enzymes
9
Annatto Color
10
Light Cream Blend
11
Cream
12
Skim Milk
13
Nonfat Milk Powder
14
Parmesan Cheese
15
Pasteurized Organic Part Skim Milk
16
Modified Food Starch
17
Natural Cheddar Flavor
18
Natural Flavors
19
Lactose
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
20
Whey Powder
21
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid
22
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
23
Cheddar Cheese
24
Cultured Pasteurized Milk
25
Buttermilk Powder
26
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
27
Annatto Extract
28
Color
29
Natural Flavor
30
Coconut Oil
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Listed

Full Ingredient List

BROCCOLI, CHEESE SAUCE (WATER, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED WHOLE MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO COLOR], LIGHT CREAM BLEND [CREAM, SKIM MILK, NONFAT MILK POWDER], PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: NATURAL CHEDDAR FLAVOR [NATURAL FLAVORS, LACTOSE, WHEY POWDER, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, DEHYDRATED CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTERMILK POWDER], XANTHAN GUM, ANNATTO EXTRACT [COLOR], NATURAL FLAVOR, COCONUT OIL).

High-score cross-brand comparables for Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce

Neighbours outside Birds Eye with screening scores in the same high band as Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Birds Eye; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Lightly Sauced Broccoli With Cheese Sauce has a longer ingredient list than 86% of its published comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0014500013453: 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.