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Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs

by Bells Original

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0054800423309 · Bells Original · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0054800423309 · Serving size 1 pouch (250 g)

The verdict

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs by Bells Original scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 36 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 36-component record, beginning with Water, Organic Parboiled Long Grain Rice, Less Than 2% Of. 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 36 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

73/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

00423309 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 36 ing. REG-SPARSE 25% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-SHORT Len top 4% LEAD-RARE Calcium Carbonate PHOTO-FINISH Ready Rice Long · ±0 BOOK-OFF …423309 · July 2026

9 of 36 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Carbonate). Source sheet 00423309 · 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: Ready Rice Long Grain & Wild with Herbs and Seasonings · Nearest score peer is Ready Rice Long Grain & Wild with Herbs and Seasonings 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.

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.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Ready Rice Roasted Chicke…100/1002. Ready Rice Long Grain & Wild with Herbs and Seasonings: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Ready Rice Long Grain & W…100/1003. Ready Rice Spanish Style with Tomatoes & Peppers: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Ready Rice Spanish Style …100/1004. Long Grain White: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Long Grain White100/1005. Ben's Original Ready Rice Whole Grain Brown: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ben's Original Ready Rice…100/100
High-band neighbours for Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs (100/100) outside Bells Original.
Chart values as text

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

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs
100/100
Ready Rice Long Grain & Wild with Herbs and Seasonings
100/100
Ready Rice Spanish Style with Tomatoes & Peppers
100/100
Long Grain White
100/100
Ben's Original Ready Rice Whole Grain Brown
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs scores 2.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs lists 36 ingredients on its label

36 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages 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

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 36 (96th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages 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

water, parboiled long grain rice, less than 2% of (canola oil, salt, yeast extract, carrots, modified corn starch, natural flavors, onion, maltodextrin, parsley, chicken fat, citric acid, garlic, sugar, cooked chicken, (chicken, chicken broth, natural flavor, citric acid), spices, safflower oil, vitamins and minerals (calcium (calcium carbonate), iron (iron phosphate), Vitamin B3 (niacinamide), Vitamine B1 (thimine mononitrate), folic acid), turmeric extract (color), sunflower oil, lactic acid)

Other products containing Thimine Mononitrate

Thimine Mononitrate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Cereals and potatoes Seeds Cereals and their products Meals Cereal grains Meals with meat Rice dishes Rices Poultry meals Meals with chicken

High-score cross-brand comparables for Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs

Neighbours outside Bells Original with screening scores in the same high band as Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs (100/100 here). No other Bells Original products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs has a longer ingredient list than 96% of its Plant-based foods and beverages category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

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

Barcode 0054800423309: 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.