Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0045425167778 · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 71 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 71-component record, beginning with Crabmeat, Crab Surimi, Fish Protein. 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 71 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
25167778 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy label screening desk
17 of 71 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Nisin). Source sheet 25167778 · 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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. Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy 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 Seafood products
Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy lists 71 ingredients on its label
71 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
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- 39 products (1%)
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- 40 and above
- 180 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 4,524 Seafood 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
Crabmeat, crab surimi, fish protein ([pollock and/or whiting], water, wheat starch, sugar, sorbitol, contains less than 2% of: salt, soybean oil, mirin wine, natural and artificial crab flavor, gel fiber, calcium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodiun pyrophosphate), celery, flour (wheat flour enriched [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], malted barley flour), bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, yeast, sugar, salt), mayonnaise (soybean oil, egg yolk, water, high fructose corn syrup, vinegar, contain less than 2% of: salt, spice, calcium disodium edta), butter (cream, salt), hot sauce (aged red cayenne peppers, distilled vinegar, salt, xanthan gum), jalapeno peppers (jalapeno peppers, water, vinegar, salt, spices, calcium chloride), onions, seasoning (modified corn starch, salt, soy protein isolate, maltodextrin, spices, [including celery seed], hydrolyzed soy protein, dextrose, autolyzed yeast extract, xanthan gum, guar gum, dehydrated parsley, soybean oil, paprika, onion powder, soy protein concentrate, cellulose gum, cellulose powder, silicone dioxide, red peppers powder), cracker meal (bleached wheat flour, sunflower oil), batter (bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, yellow corn flour, salt), green peppers, nisin, natural rosemary extract, maltodextrin, cultured dextrose.
Other products containing Gel Fiber
Gel Fiber is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 7 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Hot & spicy crab cakes with real & imitation crab and fish flakes, hot & spicy has a longer ingredient list than 100% of its Seafood category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Nisin first, then work through the remaining 71 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 0045425167778: 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.