MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021131700102 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 64 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 64-component record, beginning with Cheddar Biscuit, Enriched Wheat Four, Bleached 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 64 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
31700102 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ label screening desk
15 of 64 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 31700102 · 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.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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. MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ 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
MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ lists 64 ingredients on its label
64 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 1,215 products we track
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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 64 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cheddar Biscuit (Enriched Wheat Four [Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Water, Cheddar Cheese Product [Cultured Milk, Water, Skim Milk, Cream, Sodium Phosphates, Natural Flavor, Salt, Lactic Acid, Sorbic Acid {Preservative}, Vegetable Color {Annatto and Paprika Extract}, Enzymes], Palm Oil, Contains 2% or Less of: Leavening [Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate], Egg Patty (Whole Eggs, Nonfat Dry Milk, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Modified Corn Starch, Artificial Butter Flavor [Butter, Lipolyzed Butter Oil, Modified Coconut Oil, Artificial Flavor, Soybean Oil, Natural Flavor, Annatto Extract], Xanthan Gum, Natural and Artificial Egg Flavor [Dry Egg Yolks, Buttermilk Powder, Nonfat Dry Milk, Natural & Artificial Flavoring], Citric Acid, Soy Lecithin), Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese (Cheddar Cheese [Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Annatto], Water, Cream, Enzyme Modified Cheese [Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Water, Cream, Sodium Phosphate, Xanthan Gum], Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Sorbic Acid [Preservative], Sodium Citrate, Apo-Carotenal [Color]), Bacon Smoke Flavoring Added (Cured with Water, Salt, Sugar, Smoke Flavoring, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite).Contains: egg, milk, soy, wheat.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 64-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare MARIE CALLENDERS Bacon Egg And Cheddar Biscuit, 12.2 OZ'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 0021131700102: 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.