Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0042234000531 · Nature's Healthy Gourmet · Canned foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup by Nature's Healthy Gourmet scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 31-component record, beginning with Water, Organic Parboiled Long Grain Rice, Celery. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 31 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
34000531 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup label screening desk
5 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potato Starch). Source sheet 34000531 · 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: plant-based seven grain crispy tenders · Nearest score peer is plant-based seven grain crispy tenders 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 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Canned foods products
Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup lists 31 ingredients on its label
31 85th percentile a longer ingredient list than 85% of the 2,784 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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- 2 products (0%)
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- 58 products (2%)
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- 123 products (4%)
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- 165 products (6%)
- 20–22
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- 78 products (3%)
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- 49 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 61 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 123 products (4%)
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 2,784 Canned foods 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
Water, parboiled long grain rice, celery, okra, red bell peppers, contains less than 2% of tomato paste, tomatoes, soy protein concentrate, corn starch, salt, canola oil, natural flavors, fire-roasted tomatoes, palm oil, vital wheat gluten, yeast extract, dried onion, soy protein isolate, spices, sugar, methylcellulose, paprika, potato starch, garlic powder, yeast, tomato powder, smoke flavor, dried garlic, olive oil, barley malt extract, lactic acid.
Other products containing Fire-roasted Tomatoes
Fire-roasted Tomatoes is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 85 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup
Neighbours outside Nature's Healthy Gourmet with screening scores in the same high band as Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Nature's Healthy Gourmet; 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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (31 on 0042234000531).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Plant-Based Saus'ge Gumbo Soup has a longer ingredient list than 85% of its Canned foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Potato Starch first, then work through the remaining 31 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0042234000531: 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.