Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021130125791 · Signature Cafe · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese by Signature Cafe scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 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 53-component record, beginning with Cooked Pasta, Semolina Wheat Flour, Enriched With Niacin. 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 53 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
30125791 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese label screening desk
15 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 30125791 · 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: Cooked shrimp · Nearest score peer is Cooked shrimp 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.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese scores 2.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese 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
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
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- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked pasta (semolina wheat flour [enriched with niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], egg white), water, whole milk, pasteurized process cheese spread (cheddar and colby cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, whey, sodium phosphate, whey protein concentrate, skim milk, milk fat, salt, carrageenan, cellulose gum), cream cheese (pasteurized milk, cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), onion, dehydrated cayenne pepper sauce (aged cayenne red peppers, distilled vinegar, salt, garlic powder, maltodextrin, natural flavor, and silicon dioxide), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto extract [color], natamycin [mold inhibitor]), modified corn starch, blue cheese (whole milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, penicillium roqueforti, natamycin [mold inhibitor]), cheddar cheese paste (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], water, disodium phosphate), sodium benzoate (preservative), potassium sorbate (preservative), dextrose, citric acid, onion powder, dehydrated parsley.
Other products containing Concentrated Cheddar Cheese Paste
Concentrated Cheddar Cheese Paste is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 13 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Signature Cafe
High-score cross-brand comparables for Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese
Neighbours outside Signature Cafe with screening scores in the same high band as Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Signature Cafe; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 53 on 0021130125791).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (53 on 0021130125791).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese'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 Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Spicy buffalo style mac & cheese'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 0021130125791: 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.