Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes
by Hormel
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0037600706742 · Hormel. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes by Hormel scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Rehydrated Potatoes, Water, Potatoes. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 26 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0037600706742
- 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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
00706742 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes label screening desk
10 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00706742 · 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: Chicken pot pie · Nearest score peer is Chicken pot pie at the same screening score.
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.
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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes lists 26 ingredients on its label
26 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 359,392 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 6,050 products (2%)
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- 24,522 products (7%)
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- 24,508 products (7%)
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- 14,679 products (4%)
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- 7,955 products (2%)
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- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
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 26 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Rehydrated potatoes (water, dehydrated potatoes, monoglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid, sodium metabisulfite), beef, water, beef broth, contains 2% or less of modified cornstarch, yeast extract, salt, mushroom extract (mushrooms, maltodextrin), potassium chloride, flavoring, sugar, spices, rice flour, caramel color, sodium bisulfite, seasoning (maltodextrin, natural flavoring [contains soybean], ascorbic acid [to help protect flavor]).
Other products containing Or Less Of Modified Cornstarch
Or Less Of Modified Cornstarch is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 150 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes
Neighbours outside Hormel with screening scores in the same high band as Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hormel; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 26 on 0037600706742).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (26 on 0037600706742).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Hormel, compleats, roast beef & mashed potatoes'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 0037600706742: 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.