Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0036200227589 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 72 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 72-component record, beginning with Water, Blanched Ditalini Pasta, Ditalini. 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 72 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
50/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00227589 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding label screening desk
18 of 72 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 00227589 · 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding scores 42.9 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding lists 72 ingredients on its label
72 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 72 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, blanched ditalini pasta (ditalini (semolina [ wheat], niacin, ferrous sulfate thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, soybean oil], precooked italian style meatballs [ beef, water, textured vegetable protein product (textured soy protein concentrate, caramel color), romano cheese (made from sheep's milk, cheese culture, salt enzymes), dried whole egg, bread crumbs {bleached wheat flour, salt, dextrose, yeast, partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil}, dextrose spices, salt, dehydrated parsley, garlic ponder, caramel color, bha, bht, and citric acid], spinach, onions, carrots, concentrated chicken broth, wheat flour, chicken fat, bacon bits [ bacon (cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite), hickory smoke flavor], crushed tomatoes in puree (crushed tomatoes, tomato puree, citric acid), basil unsalted butter [ cream, milk], celery, natural flavor (natural flavors (including chicken broth, chicken fat, egg yolk solids, nonfat dry milk), autolyzed yeast extract, salt, corn, maltodextrin, whey powder, silicon dioxide], natural flavor (salt, autolyzed yeast extract, chicken flavor, chicken, flavor, maltodextrin, gum arabic, lactic acid, silicon dioxide, trisodium phosphate), roasted garlic, salt, spices. caramel color, natural flavors.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 72-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Bertolli, meal soup for 2, italian-style wedding's 4 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 0036200227589: 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.