Mega Italian Style
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041433030967 · Market Sandwich · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mega Italian Style by Market Sandwich scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Wheat Bread, Enriched Unbleached Flour, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 56 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0041433030967
- 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
30/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
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.
33030967 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mega Italian Style label screening desk
23 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrate). Source sheet 33030967 · 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: 4c, light decaffeinated iced tea mix, lemon · Nearest score peer is 4c, light decaffeinated iced tea mix, lemon 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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.
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. Mega Italian Style scores 48.9 points below that category average (40/100 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
Mega Italian Style lists 56 ingredients on its label
56 70th percentile a longer ingredient list than 70% of the 1,215 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
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- 1 products (0%)
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- 4 products (0%)
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- 11 products (1%)
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- 22 products (2%)
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- 21 products (2%)
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- 32 products (3%)
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- 28 products (2%)
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- 44 products (4%)
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- 26 products (2%)
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- 56 products (5%)
- 38–40
- 44 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 832 products (68%)
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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Wheat bread, enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, whole wheat flour, wheat bran, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, soybean oil, wheat gluten, salt, dough conditioners (monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ascorbic acid, calcium sulfate, enzymes), monocalcium phosphate, calcium propionate (preservative), sesame flour, hot ham water added (a portion of ground ham shank and ham, cured with water, dextrose, salt, modified food starch, corn syrup, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, sugar, flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate, paprika), pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, water, dextrose, spices, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, citric acid), smoked provolone cheese (cultured pasteurized milk and skim milk, salt, smoke flavoring, enzymes).
Other products containing Wheat Bread
Wheat Bread is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 35 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Market Sandwich
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Mega Italian Style
Neighbours outside Market Sandwich in the same lower screening band as Mega Italian Style (40/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Market Sandwich; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 56 on 0041433030967).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (56 on 0041433030967).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mega Italian Style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrate. Open Sodium Nitrate
- Compare Mega Italian Style'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 0041433030967: 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.