Cheesy bites
by Velveeta
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0025155067180 · Velveeta · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cheesy bites by Velveeta scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 38 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 38-component record, beginning with Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread, American Cheese, Cultured 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 38 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.
55067180 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cheesy bites label screening desk
13 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 55067180 · 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: Angus Beef With Loaded Mashed Potatoes · Nearest score peer is Angus Beef With Loaded Mashed Potatoes 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 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. Cheesy bites scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 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
Cheesy bites lists 38 ingredients on its label
38 56th percentile a longer ingredient list than 56% 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%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 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%)
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- 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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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 38 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Pasteurized process cheese spread (american cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], water, whey, sodium phosphate, whey protein concentrate, skim milk, salt, milkfat, artificial color), batter (bleached wheat flour, modified food starch, soybean oil, leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate], nonfat milk, salt, yellow corn flour, egg, lecithin), crushed cracker breader (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], soybean oil, salt, sodium bicarbonate, malted barley flour, dried yeast, tbhq [to protect flavor]), water, soybean oil, wheat flour, sodium alginate, sodium tripolyphosphate, calcium chloride.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cheesy bites
Neighbours outside Velveeta with screening scores in the same high band as Cheesy bites (85/100 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 38 on 0025155067180).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (38 on 0025155067180).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cheesy bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 38-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Cheesy bites'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 0025155067180: 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.