Italian submarine
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0035826077875 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian submarine scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 57 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 57-component record, beginning with Sub Bun, Unbleached Flour, Wheat. 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 57 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
35/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
55/100
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.
26077875 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian submarine label screening desk
20 of 57 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 26077875 · 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
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
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. Italian submarine scores 33.9 points below that category average (55/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Italian submarine lists 57 ingredients on its label
57 71st percentile a longer ingredient list than 71% 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 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 57 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sub bun [unbleached flour (wheat, malted barley), water, sugar, palm oil, wheat gluten, yeast, salt, contains less than 2% of each of the following: corn flour, acetic acid, lactic acid, soybean oil, l-cysteine, guar gum, ascorbic acid, enzymes, monoglycerides, and calcium propionate (preservative)], smoked ham water added [a portion of ground ham shank and ham added (cured with water, salt, contains 2% or less of modified food starch, corn syrup, dextrose, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite)], provolone cheese [cultured pasteurized milk and skim milk, salt, smoke flavoring, enzymes], cotto salami [mechanically separated chicken, pork, beef, beef hearts, corn syrup, water, flavoring, modified food starch, contains 2% or less of salt, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, dextrose, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite], pepperoni [pork, beef, salt, dextrose, spices, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, dehydrated garlic, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid], submarine dressing [soybean oil, red wine vinegar, water, oregano, spices, salt, food starch, xanthan gum].
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian submarine's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 57-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Italian submarine's 3 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 0035826077875: 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.