Caution

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese

by Reser's Fine Foods

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071117144277 · Reser's Fine Foods · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0071117144277 · Serving size 1/2 cup (124 g)

The verdict

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese by Reser's Fine Foods scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Potatoes, Water, Butter. 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.

85/100
Caution safety score
1
One flagged · of 24 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

60/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

85/100

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.

17144277 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 85/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 24 ing. REG-SPARSE 25% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-LONG Len top 63% LEAD-FLAG Titanium Dioxide PHOTO-FINISH Ham Salad · ±0 BOOK-OFF …144277 · July 2026

6 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 17144277 · 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: Ham Salad · Nearest score peer is Ham Salad 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.

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. Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Roasted garlic mashed pot…85/1002. Ham Salad: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Ham Salad85/1003. bleu Marine boy: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. bleu Marine boy85/1004. Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime Flavor: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime…85/1005. Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION: 85/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Turtle Chips Snack Seawee…85/100
High-band neighbours for Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese (85/100) outside Reser's Fine Foods.
Chart values as text

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

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese
85/100
Ham Salad
85/100
bleu Marine boy
85/100
Turtle Chips Flamin' Lime Flavor
85/100
Turtle Chips Snack Seaweed ORION
85/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese scores 8.6 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products

Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese lists 24 ingredients on its label

24 37th percentile a longer ingredient list than 37% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Above this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Above this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Above this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Above this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Above this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 24 (37th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
12 products (0%)
2–4
83 products (1%)
4–6
127 products (1%)
6–8
209 products (2%)
8–10
312 products (3%)
10–12
315 products (3%)
12–14
412 products (4%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
443 products (4%)
38–40
388 products (3%)
40 and above
3,204 products (28%)

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 11,283 Meals 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 85/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 24 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

potatoes, water, butter (sweet cream, salt, annatto color), margarine (vegetable oil blend [liquid soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil], water, salt, whey, soy lecithin, vegetable mono and diglycerides, sodium benzoate [to protect quality], artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin a palmitate), nonfat milk, salt, dehydrated roasted garlic, potassium sorbate to protect flavor, disodium pyrophosphate to maintain color, titanium dioxide [color], glucono delta lactone,

Categories

Meals

High-score cross-brand comparables for Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese

Neighbours outside Reser's Fine Foods with screening scores in the same high band as Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Reser's Fine Foods; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 24-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
  • Compare Roasted garlic mashed potatoes with real milk, butter & parmesan cheese'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 0071117144277: 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.