Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021130104390 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 53-component record, beginning with Cooked Macaroni, Water, Durum Wheat Semolina. 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 53 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
45/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
55/100
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.
30104390 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs label screening desk
17 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 30104390 · 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
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
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. Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs scores 37.9 points below that category average (55/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker 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
Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 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
How the 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked macaroni (water, durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheese sauce (water, milk [with vitamin d3], cheddar cheese [pasteurized cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto {color}], swiss cheese [part-skim milk, cheese cultures, enzymes, salt], modified corn starch, cream [cream, carrageenan], butter [pasteurized cream, salt], parmesan cheese [pasteurized cultured milk, salt, enzymes], cheddar cheese flavor [cheddar cheese {cultured milk, salt, enzymes}, whey, buttermilk solids, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, fd&c yellow colors #5 and #6, sodium phosphates, salt, low sodium sea salt [sea salt, potassium chloride, magnesium salts], soy lecithin, color [water, fd&c yellow #5 and #6, citric acid, fd&c red #40, sodium benzoate])), topping (cooked bacon [pork cured with water, salt, sugar, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite], bread crumbs [unbleached wheat flour, cane sugar, yeast, sea salt]).
Other products containing Low Sodium Sea Salt
Low Sodium Sea Salt is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 19 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 53-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Classics elbow noodles with cheese & seasoned breadcrumbs's 3 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 0021130104390: 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.