Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce
by Birds Eye
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0014500015181 · Birds Eye · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce by Birds Eye 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 Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product, Water, Enriched Macaroni Product. 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
- B
- 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
73/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00015181 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce label screening desk
8 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Ferrous Sulfate). Source sheet 00015181 · 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: Fresh Frozen Vegetables · Nearest score peer is Fresh Frozen Vegetables 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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. Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce 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
Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce 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
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 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
Cooked enriched macaroni product (water, enriched macaroni product (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), parmesan sauce (water, parmesan cheese [pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], light cream blend [cream, skim milk, nonfat milk powder], alfredo flavor base [parmesan cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], romano cheese [milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], salt, unsalted butter, olive oil, sweet cream powder, sugar, yeast extract and flavorings]., modified food starch. contains 2% or less of: soybean oil, basil, garlic powder, butter concentrate [butter (cream, salt), flavor], salt, xanthan gum, spices), spinach.
Other products containing Alfredo Flavor Base
Alfredo Flavor Base is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce
Neighbours outside Birds Eye with screening scores in the same high band as Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce (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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (38 on 0014500015181).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
8 of 38 parsed ingredients on Birds eye, steamfresh, lightly sauced penne with spinach in parmesan sauce match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0014500015181: 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.