BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0031000007416 · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 61 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 61-component record, beginning with Water, Tomato Paste, Organic Onions. 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 61 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
73/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00007416 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ label screening desk
14 of 61 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Tripolyphosphate). Source sheet 00007416 · 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ lists 61 ingredients on its label
61 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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. The comparison here runs against the 11,283 Meals 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
Full Ingredient List
SAUCE: Water, Tomato Paste, Onions, Parmesan Cheese (Part-Skim Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Modified CornStarch, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Crushed Garlic, Worcestershire Sauce (Vinegar, Molasses, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Anchovies, Water, Onions,Salt, Garlic, Tamarind Concentrate, Cloves, Natural Flavorings, Chili Pepper Extract), Salt, Granulated Onion, Whole Basil, Spice, Citric Acid.COOKED SPAGHETTI: Water, Spaghetti (Enriched Pasta [Durum Wheat Semolina, Niacin, Iron {Ferrous Sulfate}, Thiamine Mononitrate,Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Egg White), Soybean Oil. BREADED CHICKEN BREAST NUGGETS WITH RIB MEAT: Chicken Breast with RibMeat, Water, Bread Crumbs (Bleached Wheat Flour, Salt, Dextrose, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Spice, Extractives Of Paprika), Textured Soy Flour, Batter Mix(Yellow Corn Flour, Corn Starch, Dextrose, Salt, Spices, Sugar, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Modified Corn Starch, Garlic Powder, Guar Gum,Leavening [Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate]), Soy Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Salt,Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Flavorings. CONTAINS: EGG, FISH (ANCHOVIES) MILK, SOY, WHEAT.
Other products containing Whole Basil
Whole Basil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 13 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
BANQUET Basic Spaghetti With Chicken Nuggets, 7 OZ has a longer ingredient list than 93% of its Meals category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Sodium Tripolyphosphate first, then work through the remaining 61 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0031000007416: 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.