8 Potato Balls
by La Fe
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0023545101483 · La Fe. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
8 Potato Balls by La Fe scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 49 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 49-component record, beginning with Water, Potato Flake, Potatoes. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 49 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
70/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
45101483 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
8 Potato Balls label screening desk
11 of 49 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Bromate). Source sheet 45101483 · 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: Roll & Go Italian Dry And Mozzarella, 8 Count, 5 Oz · Nearest score peer is Roll & Go Italian Dry And Mozzarella, 8 Count, 5 Oz at the same screening score.
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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
8 Potato Balls lists 49 ingredients on its label
49 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 359,392 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
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 49 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
FILLING: WATER, DEHYDRATED POTATO FLAKE (DEHYDRATED POTATOES, ONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID), CASSAVA, BEEF, PORK, ONION, GREEN PEPPER, CORN OIL, TOMATO PASTE, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (SOYFLOUR, CARAMEL COLOR), SALT, NON FAT DRY MILK, OLIVES (OLIVES, WATER, SALT, LACTIC ACID) DEHYDRATED GARLC, RED PEPPER, SPICES, WINE, VINEGAR, BREADING: BREAD CRUMBS [ENRICHED FLOUR (FLOUR, FERROUS SULFTAE, NIACIN, THIAMIN, RIBOFLAVIN), WATER, CORN SYRUP, YEAST, BUTTERMILK, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE SHORTENING CONTAINING SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, DOUGH CONDITIONER (MONO AN DDIDLYCERIDES, ETHOXYLATED MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES), VINEGAR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, YEAST NUTRIENT (AMMONIUM SULFATE) AND POTASSIUM BROMATE), BATTER: WATER, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SALT.
More from La Fe
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for 8 Potato Balls
Neighbours outside La Fe near 8 Potato Balls's mid-band score (70/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within La Fe; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 49 on 0023545101483).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (49 on 0023545101483).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Potassium Bromate is the first flagged ingredient selected from 8 Potato Balls's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 49-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Potassium Bromate. Open Potassium Bromate
- Compare 8 Potato Balls'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 0023545101483: 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.