Swedish meatballs and pasta
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021131000899 · Marie Callender's · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Swedish meatballs and pasta by Marie Callender's scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Water, Sour Cream, Milk. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 67 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
31000899 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Swedish meatballs and pasta label screening desk
16 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 31000899 · 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: Pumpkin spice mini cupcakes · Nearest score peer is Pumpkin spice mini cupcakes 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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Swedish meatballs and pasta scores 3.6 points below that category average (90/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Swedish meatballs and pasta lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,283 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 412 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 477 products (4%)
- 16–18
- 542 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 552 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 574 products (5%)
- 30–32
- 517 products (5%)
- 32–34
- 466 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 451 products (4%)
- 36–38
- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, sour cream (milk, cream, whey, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, locust bean gum, sodium citrate, culture, natamycin), modified corn starch, onions, beef flavor (cooked beef, yeast extract, beef tallow, beef extract, flavoring, salt, sugar, vegetable juice concentrates (onion, carrot, celery), lactic acid, soybean oil), butter (cream, salt), burgundy wine, nonfat dry milk, Rochester sauce (distilled vinegar, corn syrup, water, salt, garlic powder, spices, tamarind, natural flavor), sugar, canola oil, garlic, spice, xanthan gum, cooked enriched pasta (water, enriched wheat flour (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate (iron), thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), dried whole eggs, soybean oil), cooked meatballs (beef and pork, water, bread crumb (unbleached wheat flour, sugar, salt, yeast, onions, textured soy protein concentrate (soy protein concentrate, isolated soy product, caramel color), soy protein concentrate, salt, beef flavor (cooked beef, yeast extract, beef tallow, beef extract, flavoring, salt, sugar, vegetable juice concentrates (onion, carrot, celery), lactic acid), burgundy wine, caramel color, spices, canola oil, butter (cream, salt), garlic, soy lecithin). Contains: egg, milk, soy, wheat.
Other products containing Rochester Sauce
Rochester Sauce is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 33 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Swedish meatballs and pasta
Neighbours outside Marie Callender's with screening scores in the same high band as Swedish meatballs and pasta (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Marie Callender's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 67 on 0021131000899).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (67 on 0021131000899).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Swedish meatballs and pasta's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 67-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Swedish meatballs and pasta's 2 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 0021131000899: 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.