Cooked Salami Popular
by Tropical Cheese Industries Inc.
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0027568060345 · Tropical Cheese Industries Inc. · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cooked Salami Popular by Tropical Cheese Industries Inc. scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork Hearts, Pork. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 18 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
68060345 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cooked Salami Popular label screening desk
5 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrate). Source sheet 68060345 · 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: Chorizo Argentino, Cured Sausages · Nearest score peer is Chorizo Argentino, Cured Sausages 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Cooked Salami Popular scores 7.4 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Cooked Salami Popular lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 80th percentile a longer ingredient list than 80% of the 11,159 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
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- 79 products (1%)
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- 430 products (4%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 1,485 products (13%)
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- 1,698 products (15%)
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- 1,463 products (13%)
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- 996 products (9%)
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- 734 products (7%)
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- 489 products (4%)
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- 377 products (3%)
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- 277 products (2%)
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- 50 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 238 products (2%)
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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Mechanically separated chicken, pork hearts, pork, water, soy protein concentrate, salt, spices & flavoring: (includes paprika), corn syrup solids, dextrose, sodium phosphates, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed soy protein, silicon dioxide, sodium erythorbate, natural smoke flavor, artificial color (f.d.& c. red 40), sodium nitrate.
Other products containing Includes Paprika
Includes Paprika is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 19 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cooked Salami Popular
Neighbours outside Tropical Cheese Industries Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Cooked Salami Popular (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tropical Cheese Industries Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 18 on 0027568060345).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0027568060345).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cooked Salami Popular's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrate. Open Sodium Nitrate
- Compare Cooked Salami Popular'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 0027568060345: 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.