Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028749504764 · today's KITCHEN · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style by today's KITCHEN scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 45 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 45-component record, beginning with Beef, Pork, Water. 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 45 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.
49504764 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style label screening desk
12 of 45 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 49504764 · 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: Sugar Free Spiced Windmill Cookies · Nearest score peer is Sugar Free Spiced Windmill Cookies 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.
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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style 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
Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style lists 45 ingredients on its label
45 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 11,159 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 79 products (1%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 1,698 products (15%)
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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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- 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 45 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Beef, Pork, Water, Pasteurized Process Provolone Cheese (Cultured Milk, Water, Cream, Skim Milk, Salt, Sodium Phosphates, Lactic Acid, Sorbic Acid [Preservative], Enzymes, Powdered Cellulose [To Prevent Caking], Natamycin [Preservative]), Pepperoni Seasoneo Pizza Topping (Pork, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork Heart, Water, Modified Corn Starch, Seasoning [Salt, Spices, Sugar, Paprika, Garlic Powder, Maltodextrin, Natural Flavors, Extractives Of Paprika, Smoke Flavor], Sodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Nitrite), Seasoning (Encapsulated Salt [Salt, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil], Spices, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Natural Flavors, Encapsulated Citric Acid [Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Cottonseed And Coconut Oil], Dehydrated Garlic), Golden Crumbs (Rice Flour, Vegetable Color [Paprika And Annatto Extractives]), Texturized Soy Protein (Soy Protein Co Caramel Color).
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style
Neighbours outside today's KITCHEN with screening scores in the same high band as Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within today's KITCHEN; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 45 on 0028749504764).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (45 on 0028749504764).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 45-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Loaded Italian Style Meatballs With Provolone Cheese, Loaded Italian Style'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 0028749504764: 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.