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Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel

by Giant Eagle

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0030034091897 · Giant Eagle · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0030034091897 · Serving size 1.25 PRETZELS (38 g)

The verdict

Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel by Giant Eagle scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 38 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 38-component record, beginning with Milk Chocolate, Sugar, Cocoa Butter. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None 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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

34091897 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 38 ing. REG-SPARSE 21% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 11% LEAD-RARE Caramel PHOTO-FINISH Milk Chocolate Pretzels · ±0 BOOK-OFF …091897 · July 2026

8 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel). Source sheet 34091897 · 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: Milk Chocolate Pretzels · Nearest score peer is Milk Chocolate Pretzels 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.

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

1. Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Giant eagle, market distr…100/1002. Milk Chocolate Pretzels: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Milk Chocolate Pretzels100/1003. Milk Chocolate Raisins: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Milk Chocolate Raisins100/1004. Market district, pretzels, milk chocolate honey graham: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Market district, pretzels…100/1005. Peppermint Bark: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Peppermint Bark100/100
High-band neighbours for Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel (100/100) outside Giant Eagle.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel
100/100
Milk Chocolate Pretzels
100/100
Milk Chocolate Raisins
100/100
Market district, pretzels, milk chocolate honey graham
100/100
Peppermint Bark
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products

Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel lists 38 ingredients on its label

38 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 38 (89th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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

1
Milk Chocolate
2
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
3
Cocoa Butter
4
Whole Milk
5
Chocolate Liquor
6
Soy Lecithin
7
Emulsifier
8
Vanillin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
9
Pretzels
10
Wheat Flour
11
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
12
Vegetable Oil
13
Palm
14
Corn Oil
15
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
16
Buttermilk Solids
17
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
18
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
19
Yeast
20
Corn Starch
21
Natural Butter Flavor
22
Dried Vinegar
23
Leavening
24
Baking Soda
25
Caramel
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
26
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
27
Sweetened Condensed Milk
28
Milk
29
Water
30
Butter
31
Cream
32
Vegetable Oil
33
Organic Coconut
34
Soybean
35
Disodium Phosphate
36
Artificial Flavor
37
Potassium Sorbate As A Preservative
38
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt

Full Ingredient List

Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk, chocolate liquor, soy lecithin [emulsifier], vanillin), pretzels (wheat flour, salt, vegetable oil [palm and/or corn oil], maltodextrin, buttermilk solids, lactic acid, citric acid, yeast, modified corn starch, butter flavor, vinegar, leavening [baking soda]), caramel (corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk [milk, sugar], water, butter [cream, salt], sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil [coconut, soybean], disodium phosphate, salt, artificial flavor, potassium sorbate as a preservative), pink himalayan sea salt.

Categories

Snacks

High-score cross-brand comparables for Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel

Neighbours outside Giant Eagle with screening scores in the same high band as Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Giant Eagle; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Giant eagle, market district, pretzels with sea salt, milk chocolate, caramel has a longer ingredient list than 89% of its Snacks category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0030034091897: 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.