Spicy chicken & waffle
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0018169668634 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Spicy chicken & waffle scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 83 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 83-component record, beginning with Flour Tortilla, Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 83 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
69668634 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Spicy chicken & waffle label screening desk
23 of 83 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 69668634 · 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
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Spicy chicken & waffle scores 3.9 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Spicy chicken & waffle lists 83 ingredients on its label
83 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 1,215 Sandwiches 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
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 83 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Flour tortilla (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, malted barley flour], water, canola oil, soy lecithin, less than 2% of: corn syrup, wheat gluten, sea salt, aluminum free leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate], xanthan gum, guar gum, yeast), chicken breast tenders, vegetable mix (carrot, daikon, poblano pepper), belgian waffles (enriched bleached flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, eggs, sugar, soybean oil, egg whites, 2% or less of: leavening [sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate], salt, soy lecithin [emulsifier], emulsifier [propylene glycol monoester, mono - diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate], natural & artificial flavors), cream cheese (pasteurized milk, cream, cheese cultures, salt, carob bean gum), breading (enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, spice, yellow corn flour, soybean oil, paprika, hydrolyzed corn gluten, soy protein, dextrose, extractives of paprika, turmeric, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, onion powder, natural flavor), sugar, vinegar, jalapenos, red peppers, fruit pectin, eggs, red chili garlic paste (chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, salt), oil (canola oil, tbhq, citric acid [protects flavor], dimethylpolysiloxane [prevents foaming]), apple cider vinegar (diluted to 6% acidity with water), rice vinegar (water, rice), water, sugar, sea salt (natural sea salt, magnesium carbonate), xanthan gum.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Spicy chicken & waffle's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 83-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Spicy chicken & waffle'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 0018169668634: 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.