Safe

Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored

by Ben's Original

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0054800423378 · Ben's Original · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0054800423378 · Serving size 1 pouch (250 g)

The verdict

Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored by Ben's Original scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with Sunflower Lecithin, Milk Fat, Skim Milk. 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 32 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
C
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

68/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

C

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.

00423378 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 32 ing. REG-SPARSE 28% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-SHORT Len top 8% LEAD-RARE Calcium Carbonate PHOTO-FINISH Rice Pilaf · ±0 BOOK-OFF …423378 · July 2026

9 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Carbonate). Source sheet 00423378 · 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: Rice Pilaf · Nearest score peer is Rice Pilaf 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

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. Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Ready Rice Butter & Garli…100/1002. Rice Pilaf: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Rice Pilaf100/1003. Long Grain White: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Long Grain White100/1004. Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Ready Rice Roasted Chicke…100/1005. Ready to Serve Rice: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ready to Serve Rice100/100
High-band neighbours for Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored (100/100) outside Ben's Original.
Chart values as text

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

Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored
100/100
Rice Pilaf
100/100
Long Grain White
100/100
Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs
100/100
Ready to Serve Rice
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 Butter & Garlic Flavored 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 Butter & Garlic Flavored lists 32 ingredients on its label

32 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% 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%). This entry sits in this band. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 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: 32 (92nd 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

1
Sunflower Lecithin
2
Milk Fat
3
Skim Milk
4
Turmeric Extract
5
Color
6
Vitamin B1
7
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
9
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
10
Mono And Digly Cerides
11
Calcium
12
Calcium Carbonate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MASTICATORY SUBSTANCE, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
13
Iron
14
Iron Phosphate
15
Vitamin B3 Nacinamide
16
Milk
17
Whole Milk&quot
18
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
19
Turmeric
20
Vitamns And Minerals Oil
21
Autolyzed Yeast
22
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
23
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
24
Sunflower Oil Natural Flavors Canola Oil
25
Corn Starch
26
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
27
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
28
Yeast Extract
29
Dv
30
Tells You How Much A Nutrient In A Serving Df Food
31
Bioengineered Food Ingredients. Ingredients Water
32
Organic Parboiled Long Grain Rice

Full Ingredient List

sunflower lecithin, milk fat, dried skim milk, turmeric extract (color), vitamin b1 (thiamine mononitrate), folic acid], whey*, mono and digly cerides, [calcium (calcium carbonate), iron (iron phosphate), vitamin b3 nacinamide), (contains milk), whole milk", garlic*, turmeric (color), vitamns and minerals oil, autolyzed yeast, corn syrup*, sugar, sunflower oil natural flavors canola oil, modified corn starch, salt, maltodextrin, yeast extract, coconut * the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving df food contains bioengineered food ingredients. ingredients water, parboiled long grain rice

Categories

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High-score cross-brand comparables for Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored

Neighbours outside Ben's Original with screening scores in the same high band as Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ben's Original; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Ready Rice Butter & Garlic Flavored has a longer ingredient list than 92% 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 0054800423378: 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.