Beef Shepherd's Pie
by Weis
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041497046935 · Weis. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Beef Shepherd's Pie by Weis scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 97 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 97-component record, beginning with Beef Filling, Bee, Carrots. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 97 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0041497046935
- 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
57/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
80/100
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.
97046935 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Beef Shepherd's Pie label screening desk
20 of 97 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 97046935 · 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: Breast Of Turkey · Nearest score peer is Breast Of Turkey 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.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Beef Shepherd's Pie lists 97 ingredients on its label
97 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product 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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 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 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 97 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Beef filling (bee, carrots, water, onions, margarine [liquid soybean oil, water, salt, hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil, vegetable mono and diglycerides, soylecithin, potasium sorbate and citric acid added as a preservatives, artificial carbonate (color), viatmin a palminate added], seasoning [salt, onion powder, spices, onion extractives (contains corn starch, dextrin, corn starch), spice extractive], flour [bleached (or unbleached), whaet flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid] food starch-modified tomatoes [tomatoes, toamto juice, salt, calcium chloride, citric acid], soy lecithin powder, beef seasoning [beef and beef juices, hydrolyzed soy protein, corn syrup solids, hydrogenated soy and cottonseed oil, autolyzed yeast extract,salt, caramel color, citric acid, flavor, sulfites], salt, carmel color), potato topping (water cheddar cheese [sharp cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color), potato starch and powdered celulose added to prevent caking, natamycin (a naturl mold inhibitor], dehydrated potatoes (precooked dried, selected potatoes, whey solids [from milk], and less than 1% of calcium stearoylate, corn syrup solids, soy protein partialy hydrogenated vegetable oil [palm kernel, soybean and cottonseed oils] with soy lecithin sodium casenate [from milk], mono and diglycerides, prservatives [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfate, bht], vitamin c [ascorbic acid], dipotassium phosphate, artificial flavor, datem), milk [milk, vitamin d], margarine [liquid soybean oil, water, salt, hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil, vegetable mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, potassium sorbate and citric acid added a a preservatives, artificial flavor, beta carotene (color), vitamin a palminate added], cheese extender [whey (from milk), enzyme modified cheese solids (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, calcium chloride) skim milk, maltodextrin, salt, sodium citarte)], potato seasoni9ng [salt, granulated onion, onion extarctives (contains modified corn starch, dextrin, corn stacrch)].
More from Weis
High-score cross-brand comparables for Beef Shepherd's Pie
Neighbours outside Weis with screening scores in the same high band as Beef Shepherd's Pie (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Weis; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 97 on 0041497046935).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (97 on 0041497046935).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Beef Shepherd's Pie's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 97-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
- Compare Beef Shepherd's Pie's 2 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 0041497046935: 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.