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Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese

by Potatoes On The Side

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051933051676 · Potatoes On The Side · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0051933051676 · Serving size 0.33 cup (23 g)

The verdict

Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese by Potatoes On The Side scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 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 34-component record, beginning with Dehydrated Potato With Emulsifier, Mono - And Diglycerides, Preservative. 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 34 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

33051676 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 34 ing. REG-SPARSE 29% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 40% LEAD-RARE Calcium Silicate PHOTO-FINISH Instant White Rice · ±0 BOOK-OFF …051676 · July 2026

10 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Silicate). Source sheet 33051676 · 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: Instant White Rice · Nearest score peer is Instant White Rice 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Mashed Potatoes Blended W…100/1002. Instant White Rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Instant White Rice100/1003. Cheddar Broccoli Rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Cheddar Broccoli Rice100/1004. Chicken rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Chicken rice100/1005. Rice On The Side, Spanish Rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Rice On The Side, Spanish…100/100
High-band neighbours for Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese (100/100) outside Potatoes On The Side.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese
100/100
Instant White Rice
100/100
Cheddar Broccoli Rice
100/100
Chicken rice
100/100
Rice On The Side, Spanish Rice
100/100

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. Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products

Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese lists 34 ingredients on its label

34 60th percentile a longer ingredient list than 60% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). This entry sits in this band. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Above this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meals 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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 34 (60th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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

1
Dehydrated Potato With Emulsifier
2
Mono - And Diglycerides
3
Preservative
4
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
5
Sodium Bisulfite
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
6
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
7
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
8
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
9
Cheddar Cheese
10
Milk
11
Cheese Culture
12
Enzymes
13
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
14
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
15
Parmesan Cheese
16
Msg
17
Buttermilk
18
Natural Flavor
19
Corn Starch
20
Nonfat Milk
21
Calcium Silicate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT
GRAS
22
Romano Cheese
23
Sheep And Cow Milk
24
Disodium Phosphate
25
Onion
26
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
27
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
28
Blue Cheese
29
Cultured Milk
30
Reduced Lactose Whey
31
Preservative
32
Tocopherols
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
33
Color
34
And Yellow 5 & 6

Full Ingredient List

Dehydrated potato with emulsifier (mono - and diglycerides) and preservative (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite, citric acid), maltodextrin, salt, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), contains 2% or less of: whey, sugar, parmesan cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), monosodium glutamate, buttermilk, natural flavor, modified corn starch, nonfat milk, calcium silicate, romano cheese (sheep and cow milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), disodium phosphate, dehydrated onion, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, lactic acid, blue cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), reduced lactose whey, preservative (tocopherols), citric acid, color (yellow 5 & 6).

Other products containing Sheep And Cow Milk

Sheep And Cow Milk is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Meals

High-score cross-brand comparables for Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese

Neighbours outside Potatoes On The Side with screening scores in the same high band as Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese (100/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Potatoes On The Side; these peers cross brands.

Trace this label’s coverage

Trace this label’s coverage

10 of 34 parsed ingredients on Mashed Potatoes Blended With Cheddar, Parmesan, Romano And Blue Cheese match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.

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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0051933051676: 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.