Roast beef and cheddar hoagie
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0030223019305 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Roast beef and cheddar hoagie scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 59 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 59-component record, beginning with Roast Beef Top Round And 20% Added Solution, Water, Salt. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 59 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
23019305 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Roast beef and cheddar hoagie label screening desk
20 of 59 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 23019305 · 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
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.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Roast beef and cheddar hoagie scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Roast beef and cheddar hoagie lists 59 ingredients on its label
59 74th percentile a longer ingredient list than 74% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 832 products (68%)
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 1,215 Sandwiches 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 59 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Roast beef top round and 20% added solution (enhanced with up to 20% of a solution of: water, salt, potassium lactate, corn syrup solids, sodium phosphate, sugar, sodium diacetate, onion and garlic powder, beef broth, extractives of spices. coated with: salt, caramel color, dextrose, maltodextrin, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper), hoagie (unbleached enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, yeast, fully refined soybean oil, wheat gluten, granulated sugar, salt, wheat flour, malted barley flour [contains wheat], fumaric acid and 2% or less of each of the following: acetic acid, lactic acid, calcium propionate [to retain freshness], dough improver [malted wheat flour, enzymes and 2% or less of ascorbic acid], calcium sulfate, enzymes, ascorbic acid), mild cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto [vegetable color], natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]), green leaf lettuce, mayonnaise (soybean oil, water, eggs, distilled vinegar, contains less than 2% of corn syrup, salt, spice, lemon juice concentrate, calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor), prepared mustard (water, distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, spices).
Other products containing Hoagie
Hoagie is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 7 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Roast beef and cheddar hoagie's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 59-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Roast beef and cheddar hoagie'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 0030223019305: 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.