Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken
by Hormel
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0037600207768 · Hormel · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken by Hormel scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 68 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 68-component record, beginning with Buffalo Style Chicken, Chicken Breast Meat With Rib Meat, Honey. 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 68 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
45/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
00207768 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken label screening desk
20 of 68 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 00207768 · 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: Hormel, kid's kitchen, cheezy mac 'n cheese · Nearest score peer is Hormel, kid's kitchen, cheezy mac 'n cheese 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.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken scores 13.9 points below that category average (75/100 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
Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken lists 68 ingredients on its label
68 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 1,215 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 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 68 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Buffalo style chicken (chicken breast meat with rib meat, honey, salt, sugar, cayenne pepper sauce [{aged cayenne red peppers, distilled vinegar, salt, garlic powder}, maltodextrin, natural flavor], water, dextrose, baking soda, polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, lactic acid starter culture, sodium ascorbate, flavoring, fractionated coconut oil, sodium diacetate, sodium nitrite), flatbread (enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, vital wheat gluten, oat fiber, liquid brown sugar, soy flour, contains 2% or less of soybean oil, extra virgin olive oil, prune juice concentrate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, ranch flavor [sunflower oil, medium chain triglycerides, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, spices, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, soybean oil, flavor], baking soda, wheat protein isolate, potassium sorbate and sodium propionate [preservatives], yeast, cellulose gum, fumaric acid, salt, guar gum, calcium sulfate, carrageenan, xanthan gum, maltodextrin, annatto color, enzymes), pasteurized process mozzarella and american cheese product (low moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese [part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], american cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid [preservative]).
Other products containing Buffalo Style Chicken
Buffalo Style Chicken is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken
Neighbours outside Hormel near Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hormel; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 68 on 0037600207768).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (68 on 0037600207768).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 68-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Hormel, rev, #15 buffalo chicken'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 0037600207768: 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.