Roast beef sub
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041268210008 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Roast beef sub scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 47 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 47-component record, beginning with Roast Beef Up To 10% Solution Added Caramel Color Added, Beef, Water. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 47 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
65/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
68210008 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Roast beef sub label screening desk
14 of 47 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Iodate). Source sheet 68210008 · 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
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 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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Roast beef sub scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Roast beef sub lists 47 ingredients on its label
47 48th percentile a longer ingredient list than 48% 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 47 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Roast beef up to 10% solution added caramel color added (containing up to 10% solution of: beef, water, salt, sodium phosphate, potassium lactate, hydrolyzed soy protein, dextrose, sodium diacetate, flavoring. coated with: dextrose, salt, caramel color, modified food starch, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, corn oil, spice extractives), sub roll (flour [bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, dextrose, salt, dough conditioner [wheat flour, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono-and diglycerides, enzymes, contains 2% or less of the following: ascorbic acid, soybean oil, potassium iodate, l-cysteine], yeast, margarine [canola and/or soybean oil, palm oil, palm kernel oils], dough conditioner [diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono-and diglycerides, ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate, potassium iodate, ascorbic acid), provolone cheese (provolone cheese with smoke flavor [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, natural smoke flavor]), tomato, green leaf lettuce.
Other products containing Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono-and Diglycerides
Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono-and Diglycerides is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Potassium Iodate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Roast beef sub's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 47-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Potassium Iodate. Open Potassium Iodate
- Compare Roast beef sub'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 0041268210008: 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.