Butter Microwave Popcorn
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041498185169 · Aldi-Benner Company · Unknown. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Butter Microwave Popcorn by Aldi-Benner Company scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 7 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 7-component label led by Popcorn, Canola Oil, Salt; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 7 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.
98185169 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Butter Microwave Popcorn label screening desk
1 of 7 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Salt). Source sheet 98185169 · 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: Extra fine green beans · Nearest score peer is Extra fine green beans 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 48 products we've scored in the Unknown category, the average safety score is 97/100. Butter Microwave Popcorn scores 3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Unknown products
Butter Microwave Popcorn lists 7 ingredients on its label
7 56th percentile a longer ingredient list than 56% of the 45 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
- 2–4
- 9 products (20%)
- 4–6
- 8 products (18%)
- 6–8
- 14 products (31%)
- 8–10
- 9 products (20%)
- 10–12
- 1 products (2%)
- 16–18
- 1 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 1 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 1 products (2%)
- 36 and above
- 1 products (2%)
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 45 Unknown 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
POPCORN, CANOLA OIL, LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, COLOR ADDED, TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS.
Other products containing Tbhq And Citric Acid To Preserve Freshness
Tbhq And Citric Acid To Preserve Freshness is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 58 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Butter Microwave Popcorn
Neighbours outside Aldi-Benner Company with screening scores in the same high band as Butter Microwave Popcorn (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Aldi-Benner Company; 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).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (7 on 0041498185169).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Butter Microwave Popcorn's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 7-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Salt. Open Salt
- Compare Butter Microwave Popcorn's 0 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 0041498185169: 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.