Safe

Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0045009854292 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0045009854292 · Serving size 1 SDANDWICH (177 g)

The verdict

Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 61 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 61-component record, beginning with Chicken Salad, Chicken Breast, Chicken Breast With Rib Meat. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 61 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

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

95/100

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.

09854292 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 61 ing. REG-SPARSE 13% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 23% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …854292 · July 2026

8 of 61 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 09854292 · 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.

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.

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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products

Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread lists 61 ingredients on its label

61 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% of the 1,215 products we track

0–2: 1 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 3 products (0%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4 products (0%). Below this entry. 6–8: 3 products (0%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6 products (0%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4 products (0%). Below this entry. 12–14: 11 products (1%). Below this entry. 14–16: 12 products (1%). Below this entry. 16–18: 22 products (2%). Below this entry. 18–20: 18 products (1%). Below this entry. 20–22: 17 products (1%). Below this entry. 22–24: 15 products (1%). Below this entry. 24–26: 16 products (1%). Below this entry. 26–28: 21 products (2%). Below this entry. 28–30: 32 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 28 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 44 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 26 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 56 products (5%). Below this entry. 38–40: 44 products (4%). Below this entry. 40–42: 832 products (68%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Sandwiches product, bucketed by value

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

1,215 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 61 (77th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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11 products (1%)
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22 products (2%)
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21 products (2%)
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32 products (3%)
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28 products (2%)
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44 products (4%)
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26 products (2%)
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56 products (5%)
38–40
44 products (4%)
40 and above
832 products (68%)

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 1,215 Sandwiches 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

How the 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 61 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Chicken Salad
2
Chicken Breast
3
Chicken Breast With Rib Meat
4
Water
5
Less Than 2% Potato Starch
6
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
7
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
8
Granulated Garlic
9
Black Pepper
10
Mayonnaise
11
Soybean Oil
12
Whole Egg
13
Distilled Vinegar
14
Egg Yolks
15
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
16
Lemon Juice Concentrate
17
Natural Flavor
18
Calcium Disodium Edta Added To Protect Flavor
19
Celery
20
Organic Onions
21
White Pepper
22
Lemon Juice
23
Bread
24
Whole Grain Granola And Flour Mix
25
Whole Wheat Flour
26
Steel Cut Wheat
27
Steel Cut Oats
28
Oat Flakes
29
Barley Flakes
30
Triticale Flakes
31
Soft White Wheat Flakes
32
Rye Flakes
33
Amaranth
34
Organic Flax Seeds
35
Wheat Germ
36
Organic Whole Grain Cornmeal
37
Enriched Unbleached Wheat Flour
38
Wheat Flour
39
Malted Barley Flour
40
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
41
Reduced Iron
42
Thiamin Mononitrate
43
Riboflavin And Folic Acid
44
Yeast
45
Vital Wheat Gluten
46
Brown Sugar
47
Sunflower Seeds
48
Organic Golden Flax
49
Vegetable Oil
50
Canola
51
Soy
52
Cultured Wheat Flour
53
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
54
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
55
Dough Conditioner
56
Ascorbic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
57
Calcium Sulfate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
58
Enzymes
59
Nonfat Dry Milk
60
Soy Flour
61
Lettuce

Full Ingredient List

Chicken salad (chicken breast [chicken breast with rib meat, water, less than 2% potato starch, salt, sugar, granulated garlic, black pepper], mayonnaise [soybean oil, whole egg, water, distilled vinegar, egg yolks, contains less than 2% of corn syrup, salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, natural flavor, calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor], celery, onions, white pepper, lemon juice, salt), bread (whole grain granola and flour mix [whole wheat flour, steel cut wheat, steel cut oats, oat flakes, barley flakes, triticale flakes, soft white wheat flakes, rye flakes, amaranth, flax seeds, wheat germ, whole grain cornmeal], enriched unbleached wheat flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin and folic acid], water, yeast, vital wheat gluten, brown sugar, sugar, contains 2% or less of each of the following: sunflower seeds, golden flax, vegetable oil [canola and/or soy], salt, distilled vinegar, cultured wheat flour, caramel color, xanthan gum, dough conditioner [ascorbic acid], calcium sulfate, enzymes, nonfat dry milk, soy flour), lettuce.

Categories

Sandwiches

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 61-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Chicken salad sandwich on sweet dark bread's 1 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 0045009854292: 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.