Safe

Biscuit mix

by Southeastern Mills

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070292178404 · Southeastern Mills · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0070292178404 · Serving size 1 BISCUIT, DRY MIX (35.1 g)

The verdict

Biscuit mix by Southeastern Mills scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 49 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 49-component record, beginning with Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. 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 49 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0070292178404
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

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.

92178404 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Biscuit mix label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 49 ing. REG-PART 33% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 5% LEAD-RARE Calcium Lactate PHOTO-FINISH Refreshingly Sweet Tea · ±0 BOOK-OFF …178404 · July 2026

16 of 49 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Lactate). Source sheet 92178404 · 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: Refreshingly Sweet Tea · Nearest score peer is Refreshingly Sweet Tea 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.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

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. Biscuit mix: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Biscuit mix100/1002. Refreshingly Sweet Tea: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Refreshingly Sweet Tea100/1003. Cinnamon Pull A Part Rolls: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Cinnamon Pull A Part Rolls100/1004. Cheese Roll: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Cheese Roll100/1005. Tate's bake shop, oranges & cream cookies: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Tate's bake shop, oranges…100/100
High-band neighbours for Biscuit mix (100/100) outside Southeastern Mills.
Chart values as text

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

Biscuit mix
100/100
Refreshingly Sweet Tea
100/100
Cinnamon Pull A Part Rolls
100/100
Cheese Roll
100/100
Tate's bake shop, oranges & cream cookies
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Biscuit mix scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Biscuit mix lists 49 ingredients on its label

49 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 49 (95th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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
Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour
2
Wheat Flour
3
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
4
Reduced Iron
5
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
8
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Palm Kernel Oil
9
Leavening
10
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
11
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
12
Monocalcium Phosphate
13
Wheat Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
14
Cheddar Cheese
15
Cultured Milk
16
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
17
Enzymes
18
Calcium Chloride
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, ENZYME, FIRMING AGENT, FREEZING OR COOLING AGENT, DIRECT CONTACT, FUMIGANT, HUMECTANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING
GRAS
19
Annatto
Coloring
Certain People Should Avoid
20
Buttermilk
21
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
22
Garlic Powder
23
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
24
Egg Yolks
25
Nonfat Milk
26
Oat fiber
Other
Safe
27
Natural Flavors
28
Parmesan Cheese
29
Milk
30
Cultures
31
Oat Flour
32
Calcium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
33
Preservative
34
Mono And Diglycerides
35
Soy Lecithin
36
Corn Starch
37
Disodium Phosphate
38
Fd&c Red No. 40 Lake
39
Paprika Extract
40
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
41
Calcium Lactate
DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
42
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid
43
Hydrolyzed Soy
44
Wheat
45
Corn Protein
46
Medium Chain Triglycerides
47
Tapioca Dextrin
48
Artificial Flavor
49
Corn Dextrin

Full Ingredient List

Bleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), partially hydrogenated soybean and palm kernel oil, leavening (sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), wheat starch, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, calcium chloride, annatto), salt, dried buttermilk, whey, garlic powder, maltodextrin, dried egg yolks, nonfat milk, oat fiber, natural flavors, parmesan cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), oat flour, calcium propionate (preservative), mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, modified corn starch, disodium phosphate, fd&c red no. 40 lake, paprika extract, lactic acid, calcium lactate, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed soy, wheat, and corn protein, medium chain triglycerides, tapioca dextrin, artificial flavor, corn dextrin.

Other products containing Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Palm Kernel Oil

Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Palm Kernel Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Cakes Cooking helpers Dessert mixes Pastry helpers Baking Mixes Cake mixes

High-score cross-brand comparables for Biscuit mix

Neighbours outside Southeastern Mills with screening scores in the same high band as Biscuit mix (100/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Southeastern Mills; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Biscuit mix has a longer ingredient list than 95% of its Snacks 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 0070292178404: 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.