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Chicken salad on white bread sandwich

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0035826077844 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0035826077844 · Serving size 1 SANDWICH (142 g)

The verdict

Chicken salad on white bread sandwich scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 64 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 64-component record, beginning with White Bread, Unbleached Wheat Flour, 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 64 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.

26077844 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken salad on white bread sandwich label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 64 ing. REG-PART 38% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-SHORT Len top 19% LEAD-FLAG Potassium Iodate PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …077844 · July 2026

24 of 64 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Iodate). Source sheet 26077844 · 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. Chicken salad on white bread sandwich 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

Chicken salad on white bread sandwich lists 64 ingredients on its label

64 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 1,215 products we track

0–2: 1 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 3 products (0%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4 products (0%). Below this entry. 6–8: 3 products (0%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6 products (0%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4 products (0%). Below this entry. 12–14: 11 products (1%). Below this entry. 14–16: 12 products (1%). Below this entry. 16–18: 22 products (2%). Below this entry. 18–20: 18 products (1%). Below this entry. 20–22: 17 products (1%). Below this entry. 22–24: 15 products (1%). Below this entry. 24–26: 16 products (1%). Below this entry. 26–28: 21 products (2%). Below this entry. 28–30: 32 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 28 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 44 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 26 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 56 products (5%). Below this entry. 38–40: 44 products (4%). Below this entry. 40–42: 832 products (68%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Sandwiches 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

1,215 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 64 (81st percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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11 products (1%)
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12 products (1%)
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22 products (2%)
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16 products (1%)
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21 products (2%)
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32 products (3%)
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28 products (2%)
32–34
44 products (4%)
34–36
26 products (2%)
36–38
56 products (5%)
38–40
44 products (4%)
40 and above
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 64 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
White Bread
2
Unbleached Wheat Flour
3
Water
4
High-fructose corn syrup
Sweetener
Cut Back
5
Yeast
6
Liquid Soy Oil
7
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
8
Whey Solids
9
Yeast Nutrients
10
Monocalcium Phosphate
11
Calcium Sulfate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
12
Ammonium Sulfate
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, LEAVENING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
13
Potassium Iodate
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT
Avoid GRAS
14
Monoglycerides
15
Dough Conditioners
16
Sodium stearoyl lactylate
Other
Safe
17
Calcium Peroxide
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
18
Malted Barley Flour
19
Calcium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
20
Ferrous Sulfate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
21
Iron
22
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
23
Thiamine Hydrochloride
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
24
Vitamin B1
25
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
26
Vitamin B2
27
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
28
Chicken Salad
29
Cooked White Meat Chicken
30
Salad Dressing
31
Soybean Oil
32
Dried Vinegar
33
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
34
Egg Yolks
35
Modified Food Starch
36
Mustard Flour
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
37
Spice
38
Paprika
39
Natural Flavor
40
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
41
Celery
42
Pickle Relish
43
Pickles
44
Red Peppers
45
Calcium Chloride
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
GRAS
46
Sodium Benzoate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FUMIGANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
47
Preservative
48
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
49
Flavoring
50
Alum
51
Oleoresin Turmeric
52
Polysorbate 80
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Caution Approved
53
Bread Crumbs
54
Bleached Wheat Flour
55
Chicken Flavor
56
Hydrolyzed Soy And Corn Protein
57
Yeast Extract
58
Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed And Soy Oil
59
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
60
Disodium Inosinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Approved
61
Disodium Guanylate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Approved
62
Glucono Delta Lactone
63
Gum Arabic
64
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS

Full Ingredient List

White bread [unbleached wheat flour, water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, liquid soy oil, salt, whey solids, yeast nutrients (monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, potassium iodate), monoglycerides, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium peroxide), malted barley flour, calcium propionate (to retard spoilage), ferrous sulfate (iron), niacin, thiamine hydrochloride (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid], chicken salad [cooked white meat chicken, salad dressing (soybean oil, water, vinegar, sugar, egg yolks, modified food starch, salt, mustard flour, spice, paprika, natural flavor, dried garlic), celery, pickle relish (pickles, high fructose corn syrup, water, vinegar, salt, red peppers, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate (preservative), xanthan gum, spice, natural flavoring, alum, oleoresin turmeric, polysorbate 80), bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, sugar, yeast, salt), sugar, chicken flavor (hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, yeast extract, salt, partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soy oil, maltodextrin, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate), vinegar, glucono delta lactone, gum arabic, whey].

Categories

Sandwiches

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Potassium Iodate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken salad on white bread sandwich's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 64-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Potassium Iodate. Open Potassium Iodate
  • Compare Chicken salad on white bread sandwich'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 0035826077844: 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.