Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets
by Gorton's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0044400138406 · Gorton's. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets by Gorton's scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 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 41-component record, beginning with Tilapia, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 41 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
73/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
00138406 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets label screening desk
19 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00138406 · 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: Oreo Dream Cheesecake Cheescake Factory · Nearest score peer is Oreo Dream Cheesecake Cheescake Factory 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 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
Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 359,392 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
- 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%)
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- 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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
TILAPIA, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED AND/OR CANOLA), WATER, LESS THAN 2% OF: YELLOW CORN FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, SUGAR, WHEY, YEAST, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, BAKING POWDER (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATE), LEMON JUICE SOLIDS, HYDROXYPROPYL METHYLCELLULOSE, DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, DRIED GARLIC, MODIFIED CELLULOSE, CARAMEL COLOR, COLORED WITH PAPRIKA, ANNATTO, AND TURMERIC EXTRACTS, GUAR GUM, MALIC ACID, SPICES, ASCORBIC ACID, CARRAGEENAN, TOCOPHEROLS (TO PROTECT FLAVOR), SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE (TO RETAIN FISH MOISTURE).
Other products containing Colored With Paprika
Colored With Paprika is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Gorton's
High-score cross-brand comparables for Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets
Neighbours outside Gorton's with screening scores in the same high band as Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Gorton's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 41 on 0044400138406).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0044400138406).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Tilapia Breaded Fish Fillets'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 0044400138406: 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.