Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0050100459741 · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 79 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 79-component record, beginning with Meat Loaf With Glaze, Meat Loaf, Beef. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 79 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
80/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00459741 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ label screening desk
16 of 79 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 00459741 · 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
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ scores 13.6 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Meals products
Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ lists 79 ingredients on its label
79 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 412 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 477 products (4%)
- 16–18
- 542 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 550 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 552 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 552 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 574 products (5%)
- 30–32
- 517 products (5%)
- 32–34
- 466 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 451 products (4%)
- 36–38
- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 79 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Meat Loaf With Glaze (Meat Loaf [Beef, Pork, Water, Onions, Rolled Oats, Textured Soy Protein Concentrate {Soy Protein Concentrate, Caramel Color}, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Green Bell Pepper, Rochester Sauce {Distilled Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Water, Salt, Garlic Powder, Spices, Tamarind, Natural Flavor}, Beef Flavor {Contains Beef Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt, Flavor, Maltodextrin, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid}, Soy Sauce {Water, Wheat, Soybeans, Salt, Alcohol, Vinegar, Lactic Acid}, Nonfat Dry Milk {Nonfat Dry Milk, Vitamin A, Vitamin D}, Potassium Chloride, Flavorings, Salt, Caramel Color, Whole Eggs, Soy Lecithin], Glaze [Ketchup {Water, Tomato Paste, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Salt, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Natural Flavors}, Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Soy Lecithin]), Mashed Potatoes (Water, Potatoes, Dehydrated Potato Granules, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Butter [Cream, Salt], Soybean Oil, Nonfat Dry Milk, Potassium Chloride, Sea Salt, Mono - And Diglycerides, Black Pepper, Citric Acid, Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate [To Protect Color], Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, BHT, Sodium Bisulfite), Corn, Gravy (Water, Modified Corn Starch, Onions, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Beef Flavor [Cooked Beef, Yeast Extract, Beef Tallow, Beef Extract, Flavoring, Salt, Sugar, Vegetable Juice Concentrates {Onion, Carrot, Celery}, Lactic Acid], Tomato Paste, Burgundy Wine, Sugar, Potassium Chloride, Canola Oil, Garlic, Sea Salt, Butter [Cream, Salt], Black Pepper), Apples (Citric Acid And Ascorbic Acid To Retain Color), Water, Brown Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Cream, Acetylated Monoglycerides, Salt, Alcohol, Natural Flavors. Contains: Egg, Milk, Soy, Wheat.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 79-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
- Compare Healthy Choice Classics Complete Meals Frozen Dinner, Classic Meat Loaf, 12 Ounce, 12 OZ'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 0050100459741: 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.