Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000274433 · Betty Crocker · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese by Betty Crocker scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with Potatoes, Salt, Maltodextrin. 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 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
00274433 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese label screening desk
10 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Bisulfite). Source sheet 00274433 · 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: Real mashed potatoes mix pouches butter & herb · Nearest score peer is Real mashed potatoes mix pouches butter & herb 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 56th percentile a longer ingredient list than 56% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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
Potatoes*, Salt, Maltodextrin, Ricotta Cheese* (Whey, Milkfat, Lactic Acid, Salt), Sugar, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Parmesan Cheese* (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Whey, Monosodium Glutamate, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Lactic Acid, Onion*, Calcium Lactate, Silicon Dioxide (Anticaking Agent), Romano Cheese* (Made From Cow'S Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Cheddar Cheese* (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Color (Yellow Lakes 5 & 6). Yeast Extract, Enzyme Modified Romano Cheese (Made From Cow'S Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Sodium Phosphate, Soy Lecithin. Freshness Preserved By Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bisulfite, Tocopherols, Citric Acid.
Other products containing Yellow Lakes 5 & 6
Yellow Lakes 5 & 6 is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 37 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese
Neighbours outside Betty Crocker with screening scores in the same high band as Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Betty Crocker; 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 (32 on 0016000274433).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
10 of 32 parsed ingredients on Mashed Potatoes Four Cheese 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 0016000274433: 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.