Mini breaded cheese sticks
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0044857006343 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mini breaded cheese sticks scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 52 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 52-component record, beginning with Low - Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese, Pasteurized Organic Part Skim Milk, Cheese Culture. 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 52 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0044857006343
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
57006343 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mini breaded cheese sticks label screening desk
18 of 52 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: L-cysteine Monohydrochloride). Source sheet 57006343 · 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
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.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Mini breaded cheese sticks scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Mini breaded cheese sticks lists 52 ingredients on its label
52 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen 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
Low - moisture part skim mozzarella cheese(pasteurized part skim milk,cheese culture, salt, enzymes), water,enriched bleached wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate,riboflavin, folic acid), bleached wheat flour, vegetable oil(soybean and/or canola), yellow corn flour,wheat flour.contains 2% or lessof annatto extract (color), buttermilk, calcium chloride, citric acid, dextrin, dextrose, dough conditioners (ascorbic acid, l-cysteine monohydrochloride), dried garlic, dried onion, food starch-modified, garlic powder, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), maltodextrin, natural flavor, nonfat milk,onion powder, paprika extract (color) parsley, potato starch-modified, rice flour, salt, sodium alginate, sugar, tumeric extract (color), vegetable oil shortening (soybean oil), whey, whole eggs,xanthan gum, yeast.
Other products containing Potato Starch-modified
Potato Starch-modified is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 16 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Mini breaded cheese sticks has a longer ingredient list than 81% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open L-cysteine Monohydrochloride first, then work through the remaining 52 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 0044857006343: 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.