Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage
by Trader Joe's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 00282871 · Trader Joe's. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 10 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 10-component label led by 68g, Red And Green Peppers Water, Seasoning; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 10 analyzed
- 00282871
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
100/100
Grade A+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
N/A
NOVA food-processing classification
Nutrition Grade
N/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.
00282871 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage label screening desk
1 of 10 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Salt). Source sheet 00282871 · 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: Whiskey Maple BBQ Sauce · Nearest score peer is Whiskey Maple BBQ Sauce 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage lists 10 ingredients on its label
10 35th percentile a longer ingredient list than 35% of the 359,392 products we track
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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
Full Ingredient List
Sweet italian Style Sausage Fat reduced from 23g to 6g per 68g serving Nurition Facts Serving Size 1 link (68g) Servings Per Container 5 Amount Per Serving Calories 110 Calories from Fat 50 % Daily Value* 9% 10% SKINLESS CHICKEN MEAT, RED AND GREEN PEPPERS WATER, SEASONING (SALT, SPICES, TURBINADO SUGAR) DIST , SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY: TRADER JOE'S MONROVIA, CAN 01016 These sausages are fully coke Just heat and serve Grill, Pan Fry or Broil for 7-9 minutes, or microwave on a plate for 30 seconds on HIGH 70% less fat than USDA data for cooked pork sausage Pork Free • Gluten Free No Sausage Casing 68433-12 Total Fat 6g Saturated Fat 2g Trans Fat 0g Cheesterol 55mg Sodium 450mg Total Carbohydrate 2g Dietary Fiber 0g Sugars 1g Protein 11g 18% 19% 1% 0% Vitamin A 0% • Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0% • Iron 6% * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet 0028 2871 046 BX 11 USE/FRZ BY MAY 05 2024
Other products containing 68g
68g is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (10 on 00282871).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 10-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Salt. Open Salt
- Compare Sweet Italian Style Chicken Sausage's 0 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 00282871: 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.