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Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender

by Longhorn barbecue

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0017752301064 · Longhorn barbecue · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0017752301064 · Serving size 4 ONZ (113 g)

The verdict

Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender by Longhorn barbecue scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 32-component record, beginning with Smoked Pork Baby Back Ribs Coated With Brown Sugar, Sugar, Apple Juice. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 32 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

75/100

Grade B+

Ingredient Safety

95/100

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.

52301064 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 32 ing. REG-SPARSE 19% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-SHORT Len top 5% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q · ±0 BOOK-OFF …301064 · July 2026

6 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 52301064 · 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: Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q · Nearest score peer is Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q 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. Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Sweet & Tender Smoked Bab…95/1002. Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q95/1003. Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert, Del Lago Chocolate: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert…95/1004. Dairy free frozen desserts: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Dairy free frozen desserts95/1005. Df Mavens, Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert, New Orleans Salted Praline: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Df Mavens, Dairy-Free Fro…95/100
High-band neighbours for Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender (95/100) outside Longhorn barbecue.
Chart values as text

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

Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender
95/100
Bar-B-Q Sauce, Bar-B-Q
95/100
Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert, Del Lago Chocolate
95/100
Dairy free frozen desserts
95/100
Df Mavens, Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert, New Orleans Salted Praline
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender scores 2.6 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products

Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender lists 32 ingredients on its label

32 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,159 products we track

0–2: 79 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 430 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 612 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 1,397 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 1,485 products (13%). Below this entry. 10–12: 1,698 products (15%). Below this entry. 12–14: 1,463 products (13%). Below this entry. 14–16: 996 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 734 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 489 products (4%). Below this entry. 20–22: 377 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 277 products (2%). Below this entry. 24–26: 234 products (2%). Below this entry. 26–28: 140 products (1%). Below this entry. 28–30: 145 products (1%). Below this entry. 30–32: 92 products (1%). Below this entry. 32–34: 83 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 66 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 74 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 50 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 238 products (2%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meats and their products product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

11,159 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 32 (95th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
79 products (1%)
2–4
430 products (4%)
4–6
612 products (5%)
6–8
1,397 products (13%)
8–10
1,485 products (13%)
10–12
1,698 products (15%)
12–14
1,463 products (13%)
14–16
996 products (9%)
16–18
734 products (7%)
18–20
489 products (4%)
20–22
377 products (3%)
22–24
277 products (2%)
24–26
234 products (2%)
26–28
140 products (1%)
28–30
145 products (1%)
30–32
92 products (1%)
32–34
83 products (1%)
34–36
66 products (1%)
36–38
74 products (1%)
38–40
50 products (0%)
40 and above
238 products (2%)

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 11,159 Meats and their products products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Smoked Pork Baby Back Ribs Coated With Brown Sugar, Sugar, Apple Juice, Salt, Flavorings, Paprika, Barbecue Sauce: Water, Tomato Concentrate (Tomatoes, Distilled Vinegar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Salt, Onion Powder, Spice, Natural Flavoring), Brown Sugar, Sugar, Salt, Herbs And Spices, Onion Powder, Caramel Color, Worcestershire Sauce Powder (Molasses, Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Solids, Salt, Caramel Color, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Spices, Tamarind, Natural Flavor) Xanthan Gum, Chili Pepper, Sodium Benzoate And Potassium Sorbate (To Protect Freshness), Garlic Powder, Smoke Flavoring, Beef Extract Powder (Maltodextrin Beef Extract).

Categories

Meats and their products Meats

High-score cross-brand comparables for Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender

Neighbours outside Longhorn barbecue with screening scores in the same high band as Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender (95/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Longhorn barbecue; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Sweet & Tender Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs With Barbecue Sauce, Sweet & Tender's 1 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 0017752301064: 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.