Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021131800475 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni scores 35/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 48 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 48-component record, beginning with Organic Tomato Puree, Water, Tomato Paste. 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.
- 35/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 48 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
35/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
31800475 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni label screening desk
16 of 48 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propyl Gallate). Source sheet 31800475 · 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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. Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni scores 57.9 points below that category average (35/100 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
Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni lists 48 ingredients on its label
48 75th percentile a longer ingredient list than 75% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 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
How the 35/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 48 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), cooked enriched pasta (water, durum flour [ durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate {iron}, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], canola oil, dried egg whites), diced tomatoes with juice, low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (cheese [ pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], whey protein concentrate), sausage (pork, spices, water, salt, corn syrup, paprika, caramel color, flavoring, bha, propyl gallate, citric acid), pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of: dextrose, flavorings, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, sodium nitrate, bha, bht, citric acid), parmesan and romano cheese from cow's milk (part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), contains 2% or less of: wine, garlic, modified corn starch, sweeteners (refinery syrup, honey), salt, flavoring, citric acid.
Other products containing Parmesan And Romano Cheese From Cow's Milk
Parmesan And Romano Cheese From Cow's Milk is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 15 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Propyl Gallate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 48-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Propyl Gallate. Open Propyl Gallate
- Compare Freshly made pasta, three cheese ziti marinara with sausage & pepperoni's 5 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 0021131800475: 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.