Stuffed grilled cheese
by Velveeta
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0025155067043 · Velveeta · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Stuffed grilled cheese by Velveeta scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 58 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 58-component record, beginning with Dough, Biscuit Dough, Enriched 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 58 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
55067043 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Stuffed grilled cheese label screening desk
17 of 58 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 55067043 · 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: Pesto Ravioli with Italian Sausage · Nearest score peer is Pesto Ravioli with Italian Sausage 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 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.
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. Stuffed grilled 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
Stuffed grilled cheese lists 58 ingredients on its label
58 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 7,008 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
- 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%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 271 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 294 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 58 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Dough (biscuit dough [enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, sugar, dextrose, contains 2% of less of: buttermilk solids, salt, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, leavening (sodium aluminum phosphate, calcium carbonate), butter flavored oil (liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, contains less than 2% of salt, soy lecithin, natural & artificial flavor, beta carotene [color], tbhq and citric acid added to protect flavor), xanthan gum, eggs]), filling (pasteurized prepared cheese product [pasteurized milk, whey, water, milk protein concentrate, modified food starch, gelatin, milkfat, sodium phosphate, salt, maltodextrin, lactic acid, sodium alginate, sorbic acid (preservative), cheese culture, enzymes, apocarotenal (color)], water, cheese sauce [whey, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), modified food starch, butter, buttermilk solids, salt, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of carrageenan, lactic acid, oleoresin paprika (color), annatto (color), natural flavor, enzyme modified cheese (cheddar cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], disodium phosphate, enzymes, xanthan gum)], modified food starch, modified cellulose).
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Stuffed grilled cheese
Neighbours outside Velveeta with screening scores in the same high band as Stuffed grilled cheese (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Velveeta; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 58 on 0025155067043).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (58 on 0025155067043).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Stuffed grilled cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 58-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Stuffed grilled 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 0025155067043: 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.