Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip
by Food Lion
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0035826090720 · Food Lion · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip by Food Lion scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 55 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 55-component record, beginning with Muffin, Sugar, Unbleached And Bleached Wheat Flour. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 55 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0035826090720
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
26090720 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip label screening desk
19 of 55 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 26090720 · 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: Cooked Ham · Nearest score peer is Cooked Ham at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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
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. Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip scores 1.1 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products
Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip lists 55 ingredients on its label
55 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 81,477 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 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
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 55 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Muffin [sugar, unbleached and bleached wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), eggs, water, soybean oil, chocolate chips [sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, lecithin (an emulsifier)], modified food starch, dextrose, vital wheat gluten, whey, salt, corn starch, titanium dioxide, guar gum, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, mono and diglycerides, propylene glycol monoesters, sodium propionate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), datem, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60, beta carotene, artificial flavor, phosphoric acid], streusel [bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, margarine (partially hydrogenated soybean and palm oils, water, salt, mono and diglycerides, nonfat dry milk, lecithin, sodium benzoate (preservative), artificial color, beta carotene (color), vitamin a palmitate), brown sugar, salt, natural and artificial vanilla flavor].
Other products containing Muffin
Muffin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip
Neighbours outside Food Lion with screening scores in the same high band as Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Food Lion; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 55 on 0035826090720).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (55 on 0035826090720).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 55-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip'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 0035826090720: 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.