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Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage

by Classico

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021000073603 · Classico · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0021000073603 · Serving size 1 cup (219 g)

The verdict

Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage by Classico scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 43 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 43-component record, beginning with Tomato 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 43 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
C
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

68/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

C

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.

00073603 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 43 ing. REG-SPARSE 23% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 34% LEAD-RARE Ferrous Sulfate PHOTO-FINISH Buffalo Style With · ±0 BOOK-OFF …073603 · July 2026

10 of 43 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Ferrous Sulfate). Source sheet 00073603 · 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: Buffalo Style With Celery Cream Cheese Dip And Tortilla Chips, Buffalo Style With Celery · Nearest score peer is Buffalo Style With Celery Cream Cheese Dip And Tortilla Chips, Buffalo Style With Celery 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

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

1. Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Creamy Tomato Sauce Made …100/1002. Buffalo Style With Celery Cream Cheese Dip And Tortilla Chips, Buffalo Style With Celery: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Buffalo Style With Celery…100/1003. Roasted Garlic & Herb: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Roasted Garlic & Herb100/1004. MEAT LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. MEAT LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT100/1005. VEGGIE LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. VEGGIE LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT100/100
High-band neighbours for Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage (100/100) outside Classico.
Chart values as text

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

Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage
100/100
Buffalo Style With Celery Cream Cheese Dip And Tortilla Chips, Buffalo Style With Celery
100/100
Roasted Garlic & Herb
100/100
MEAT LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT
100/100
VEGGIE LOVERS SCRAMBLE KIT
100/100

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. Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage 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

Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage lists 43 ingredients on its label

43 66th percentile a longer ingredient list than 66% of the 7,008 products we track

0–2: 11 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 54 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 54 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 66 products (1%). Below this entry. 8–10: 102 products (1%). Below this entry. 10–12: 112 products (2%). Below this entry. 12–14: 184 products (3%). Below this entry. 14–16: 205 products (3%). Below this entry. 16–18: 245 products (3%). Below this entry. 18–20: 284 products (4%). Below this entry. 20–22: 264 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 298 products (4%). Below this entry. 24–26: 247 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 271 products (4%). Below this entry. 28–30: 284 products (4%). Below this entry. 30–32: 294 products (4%). Below this entry. 32–34: 325 products (5%). Below this entry. 34–36: 319 products (5%). Below this entry. 36–38: 314 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 283 products (4%). Below this entry. 40–42: 2,792 products (40%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Frozen foods product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

7,008 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 43 (66th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
11 products (0%)
2–4
54 products (1%)
4–6
54 products (1%)
6–8
66 products (1%)
8–10
102 products (1%)
10–12
112 products (2%)
12–14
184 products (3%)
14–16
205 products (3%)
16–18
245 products (3%)
18–20
284 products (4%)
20–22
264 products (4%)
22–24
298 products (4%)
24–26
247 products (4%)
26–28
271 products (4%)
28–30
284 products (4%)
30–32
294 products (4%)
32–34
325 products (5%)
34–36
319 products (5%)
36–38
314 products (4%)
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

1
Tomato Sauce
2
Organic Tomato Puree
3
Water
4
Tomato Paste
5
Diced Tomatoes
6
Tomatoes
7
Tomato Juice
8
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
9
Calcium Chloride
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
GRAS
10
Neufchatel Cheese
11
Milk And Cream
12
Cheese Culture
13
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
14
Stabilizers
15
Carob Bean
16
Guar
17
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
18
Parmesan Cheese
19
Cultured Part-skim Milk
20
Enzymes
21
Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
22
Cornstarch
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
23
Roasted Garlic
24
Organic Onions
25
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
26
Spices
27
Roasted Red Bell Pepper Puree
28
Onion
29
Organic Pasta
30
Enriched Macaroni Product
31
Durum Wheat Semolina
32
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
33
Ferrous Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
34
Thiamin Mononitrate
35
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
36
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
37
Fully Cooked Italian Sausage
38
Pork
39
Paprika
40
Granulated Garlic
41
Shredded Part-skim Mozzarella Cheese
42
Pasteurized Part-skim Milk
43
Skim Milk

Full Ingredient List

Tomato Sauce (Tomato Puree [Water, Tomato Paste], Diced Tomatoes [Tomatoes, Tomato Juice, Citric Acid, Calcium Chloride], Neufchatel Cheese [Milk And Cream, Cheese Culture, Salt, Stabilizers (Carob Bean, Guar, And/Or Xanthan Gum)], Parmesan Cheese [Cultured Part-Skim Milk, Salt, Enzymes], Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cornstarch, Roasted Garlic, Onions, Sugar, Spices, Roasted Red Bell Pepper Puree, Dehydrated Onion, Salt), Pasta (Water, Enriched Macaroni Product [Durum Wheat Semolina, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid]), Fully Cooked Italian Sausage (Pork, Spices [Including Paprika], Water, Salt, Sugar, Granulated Garlic), Shredded Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Part-Skim Milk, Skim Milk, Salt, Cheese Culture, Enzymes).

Categories

Frozen foods

High-score cross-brand comparables for Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage

Neighbours outside Classico with screening scores in the same high band as Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Classico; these peers cross brands.

Trace this label’s coverage

Trace this label’s coverage

10 of 43 parsed ingredients on Creamy Tomato Sauce Made With Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Italian Sausage And Shell Pasta Bake, Shells & Italian Sausage match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0021000073603: 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.