Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping
by Knauss
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071234110308 · Knauss · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping by Knauss scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 28 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 28-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Beef, Chunked And Formed. 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.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 28 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
30/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
25/100
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.
34110308 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping label screening desk
13 of 28 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 34110308 · 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: Star Spangled · Nearest score peer is Star Spangled 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 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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping scores 67.4 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping lists 28 ingredients on its label
28 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 11,159 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
- 79 products (1%)
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- 430 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 612 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 1,397 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,485 products (13%)
- 10–12
- 1,698 products (15%)
- 12–14
- 1,463 products (13%)
- 14–16
- 996 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 734 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 489 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 377 products (3%)
- 22–24
- 277 products (2%)
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- 234 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 140 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 145 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 92 products (1%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 74 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 50 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 238 products (2%)
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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 25/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 28 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, dried beef, chunked and formed [beef, salt, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, bht, tbhq, and citric acid], modified food starch, dehydrated sweet cream [pasteurized sweet cream, skim milk solids, sodium caseinate, lecithin, and bht], powdered vegetable shortening [sunflower oil, food starch-modified, maltodextrin, sodium silico aluminate as anti-caking agent, and natural tocopher ols], unsalted butter (pasteurized cream), sugar, xanthan gum, titanium dioxide.
Other products containing Chunked And Formed
Chunked And Formed is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping
Neighbours outside Knauss in the same lower screening band as Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping (25/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Knauss; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 28 on 0071234110308).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (28 on 0071234110308).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 28-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Knauss, creamed chipped beef topping's 5 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 0071234110308: 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.