Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick
by Jack Link's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400712972 · Jack Link's · Meat-snack. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick by Jack Link's scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Pork, Beef, Water. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 26 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
70/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00712972 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick label screening desk
7 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 00712972 · 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: Hills bros · Nearest score peer is Hills bros 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 61 products we've scored in the Meat-snack category, the average safety score is 97.5/100. Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick scores 27.5 points below that category average (70/100 vs. 97.5/100), 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 Meat-snack products
Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick lists 26 ingredients on its label
26 91st percentile a longer ingredient list than 91% of the 58 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 4–6
- 1 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 6 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 14 products (24%)
- 12–14
- 10 products (17%)
- 14–16
- 10 products (17%)
- 16–18
- 4 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 3 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 3 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 1 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 1 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 1 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 3 products (5%)
- 34 and above
- 1 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 58 Meat-snack 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 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 26 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PORK, BEEF, WATER, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SOY SAUCE (WATER, SOYBEANS, SALT, SUGAR), FLAVORS, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), RICE BRAN, SOY SAUCE (WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, HYDROLYZED SOY AND CORN PROTEIN, MALTODEXTRIN, SAFFLOWER AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL, FRUCTOSE MALIC ACID, INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SUCRALOSE, SODIUM NITRITE, CASING (CARAMEL, ANNATTO), CONTAINS: SOY, WHEAT
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick
Neighbours outside Jack Link's near Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick's mid-band score (70/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Jack Link's; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 26 on 0028400712972).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (26 on 0028400712972).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Meat Stick'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 0028400712972: 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.