Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling
by Winco Foods
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070552903036 · Winco Foods · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling by Winco Foods scores 20/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 20 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 20-component label is layered, beginning with Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Or Less Of Almonds Roasted In Safflower Oil. 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.
- 20/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 20 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
18/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
20/100
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.
52903036 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling label screening desk
7 of 20 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 52903036 · 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: Popsicle, Snow Cone, Strawberry, Blue Raspberry And Lemon, Artificially Flavored · Nearest score peer is Popsicle, Snow Cone, Strawberry, Blue Raspberry And Lemon, Artificially Flavored 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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.
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 18,164 products we've scored in the Desserts category, the average safety score is 89.5/100. Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling scores 69.5 points below that category average (20/100 vs. 89.5/100), 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 Desserts products
Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling lists 20 ingredients on its label
20 52nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 52% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 11,156 Desserts 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 20/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 20 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sugar, modified food starch, contains 2 or less of almonds roasted in safflower oil, disodium phosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate (for thickening), pistachios roasted in safflower oil, salt, nonfat dry milk, mono - and diglycerides (contains propyl gallate and citric acid as antioxidants), partially hydrogenated soybean oil, maltodextrin, titanium dioxide (for color), artificial flavors, yellow 5, blue 1], bha (preservative).
Other products containing Or Less Of Almonds Roasted In Safflower Oil
Or Less Of Almonds Roasted In Safflower Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 9 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling
Neighbours outside Winco Foods in the same lower screening band as Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling (20/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Winco Foods; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 20 on 0070552903036).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (20 on 0070552903036).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 20-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Instant Pistachio Pudding & Pie Filling's 4 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 0070552903036: 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.