Concern

Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue

by Armour

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0054100375704 · Armour · Canned foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0054100375704 · Serving size 1 CAN (85 g)

The verdict

Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue by Armour scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 23 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 23-component label is layered, beginning with Mechanically Separated Chicken, Partially Defatted Pork Fatty Tissue, Tocopherol. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

55/100
Concern safety score
3
Few flagged · of 23 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

35/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

55/100

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.

00375704 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 55/100 FLAG-FEW 3 flagged LEN-LAYERED 23 ing. REG-PART 30% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 33% LEAD-FLAG Sodium Nitrite PHOTO-FINISH Sweet Gherkins No · ±0 BOOK-OFF …375704 · July 2026

7 of 23 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 00375704 · 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: Sweet Gherkins No Sugar Added · Nearest score peer is Sweet Gherkins No Sugar Added at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.

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. Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue: 55/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Armour, potted meat, barb…55/1002. Sweet Gherkins No Sugar Added: 55/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Sweet Gherkins No Sugar A…55/1003. Cinnamon bread with cinnamon bursts: 55/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Cinnamon bread with cinna…55/1004. Classic Pepperoni: 55/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Classic Pepperoni55/1005. Sliced Pepperoni: 55/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Sliced Pepperoni55/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue (55/100 on 23 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue
55/100
Sweet Gherkins No Sugar Added
55/100
Cinnamon bread with cinnamon bursts
55/100
Classic Pepperoni
55/100
Sliced Pepperoni
55/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue scores 37.4 points below that category average (55/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Canned foods products

Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue lists 23 ingredients on its label

23 67th percentile a longer ingredient list than 67% of the 2,784 products we track

0–2: 2 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 58 products (2%). Below this entry. 4–6: 123 products (4%). Below this entry. 6–8: 148 products (5%). Below this entry. 8–10: 226 products (8%). Below this entry. 10–12: 301 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 233 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 246 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 182 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 165 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 133 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 133 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 24–26: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. 26–28: 116 products (4%). Above this entry. 28–30: 124 products (4%). Above this entry. 30–32: 78 products (3%). Above this entry. 32–34: 95 products (3%). Above this entry. 34–36: 65 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 49 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 61 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Canned foods 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

2,784 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 23 (67th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
2 products (0%)
2–4
58 products (2%)
4–6
123 products (4%)
6–8
148 products (5%)
8–10
226 products (8%)
10–12
301 products (11%)
12–14
233 products (8%)
14–16
246 products (9%)
16–18
182 products (7%)
18–20
165 products (6%)
20–22
133 products (5%)
22–24
133 products (5%)
24–26
123 products (4%)
26–28
116 products (4%)
28–30
124 products (4%)
30–32
78 products (3%)
32–34
95 products (3%)
34–36
65 products (2%)
36–38
49 products (2%)
38–40
61 products (2%)
40 and above
123 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 2,784 Canned 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

How the 55/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 23 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Mechanically separated chicken, partially defatted pork fatty tissue (tocopherol, natural flavor and citric acid), water, salt, mustard. contains 2% or less of: caramel color, barbecue flavor (cottonseed oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, sunflower oil, acetic acid, flavors, and smoke flavor), vinegar, dextrose, sodium erythorbate, garlic powder, natural flavors, red 40 (color), sodium nitrite.

Categories

Canned foods Meats and their products Meats Canned meats

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue

Neighbours outside Armour near Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue's mid-band score (55/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Armour; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 23-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
  • Compare Armour, potted meat, barbecue, barbecue's 3 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 0054100375704: 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.