Country Style Hash Brown
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041220330799 · Hill Country Fare · Specific products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Country Style Hash Brown by Hill Country Fare scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 3 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. Its short parsed label begins Potatoes, Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, so the useful next step is to inspect those few components directly rather than infer from the composite score. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 3 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
78/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
20330799 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Country Style Hash Brown label screening desk
2 of 3 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate). Source sheet 20330799 · 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: HEB Mango Greek Yogurt · Nearest score peer is HEB Mango Greek Yogurt 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.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 543 products we've scored in the Specific products category, the average safety score is 84.1/100. Country Style Hash Brown scores 15.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 84.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Specific products products
Country Style Hash Brown lists 3 ingredients on its label
3 4th percentile a longer ingredient list than 4% of the 72 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 40 and above
- 5 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. The comparison here runs against the 72 Specific products 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
Full Ingredient List
POTATOES, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Country Style Hash Brown
Neighbours outside Hill Country Fare with screening scores in the same high band as Country Style Hash Brown (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hill Country Fare; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Check the compact label closely
Check the compact label closely
Country Style Hash Brown has a shorter ingredient list than 96% of its Specific products category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.
- Start with Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
- Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
- Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0041220330799: 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.