Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce
by Gerber
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0015000056087 · Gerber · Baby foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce by Gerber scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 44 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 44-component record, beginning with Turkey Meat Sauce, Organic Tomato Puree, 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 44 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0015000056087
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/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.
00056087 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce label screening desk
9 of 44 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Whey). Source sheet 00056087 · 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: 100% Orange Juice · Nearest score peer is 100% Orange Juice 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 is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
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 991 products we've scored in the Baby foods category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce scores 0.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Baby foods products
Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce lists 44 ingredients on its label
44 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% of the 894 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 1 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 106 products (12%)
- 4–6
- 196 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 143 products (16%)
- 8–10
- 105 products (12%)
- 10–12
- 56 products (6%)
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- 34 products (4%)
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- 27 products (3%)
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- 20 products (2%)
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- 20–22
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- 8 products (1%)
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- 5 products (1%)
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- 1 products (0%)
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- 5 products (1%)
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- 4 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 6 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 109 products (12%)
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 894 Baby 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
TURKEY MEAT SAUCE (TOMATO PUREE [WATER, TOMATO PASTE), COOKED GROUND TURKEY, DICED TOMATOES, OLIVE OIL, TOMATO JUICE, CORN STARCH, RED & GREEN PEPPERS, CARROTS, ONIONS, PARMESAN CHEESE [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYME), GARLIC, CARROT JUICE CONCENTRATE, SALT, BREAD CRUMBS [UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, YEAST, SALT), TURKEY BROTH, NATURAL FLAVORS, TOMATO POWDER, SPICE, GARLIC & ONION POWDERS, SUNFLOWER OIL, SUGAR, WHEY),, COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, WHEAT SEMOLINA, EGG WHITE, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID),, PEAS, CARROTS., PACKED IN SEASONED WATER (WATER, CORN STARCH, CHICKEN BROTH, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, ONION POWDER, LEMON & CARROT & CELERY JUICE CONCENTRATES, MONK FRUIT JUICE CONCENTRATE).
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce
Neighbours outside Gerber with screening scores in the same high band as Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Gerber; 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 (44 on 0015000056087).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Mealtime for Toddler Simply Spiral Pasta in Turkey Meat Sauce has a longer ingredient list than 90% of its Baby foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Whey first, then work through the remaining 44 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0015000056087: 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.