Chicken & chorizo empanadas
by M&s
Open Food Facts label for barcode 00667180 · M&s · Pies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken & chorizo empanadas by M&s scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 12 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 12-component label led by Is Wheatflour, Gluten, Wheatflour; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 12 analyzed
- 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
77/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
N/A
NOVA food-processing classification
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.
00667180 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken & chorizo empanadas label screening desk
3 of 12 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 00667180 · 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: Kitu super coffee white chocolate peppermint · Nearest score peer is Kitu super coffee white chocolate peppermint at the same screening score.
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.
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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 290 products we've scored in the Pies category, the average safety score is 72/100. Chicken & chorizo empanadas scores 13 points above that category average (85/100 vs. 72/100), 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 every product we publish
Chicken & chorizo empanadas lists 12 ingredients on its label
12 43rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 43% of the 359,392 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 12 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
. . IS Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin Thiamin) Chicken Thighs (24%) Rapeseed Oil Red Peppers Red Wine Chorizo Pork Sausage (3%) (Pork Curing Sa Preservative: Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite) Sugar Sweet Paprik Powder Ground White Pepper Antioxidant: E301) Tomato Paste C Spices (Paprika Smoked Paprika Cayenne Pepper) Coriander Sal Purée Parsley Sugar Cornflour Cracked Black Pepper Reduced Sea Salt Dextrose Colour: Paprika Extract Wheat Starch (contains allergens see ingredients in bold. . . the UK with M&S assured chicken K and . • . • 10
Other products containing Wheatflour
Wheatflour is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 50 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken & chorizo empanadas
Neighbours outside M&s with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken & chorizo empanadas (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within M&s; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 12 on 00667180).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (12 on 00667180).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken & chorizo empanadas's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 12-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Chicken & chorizo empanadas's 1 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 00667180: 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.