Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071421100037 · Steak 'N Shake · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough by Steak 'N Shake scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 84 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 84-component record, beginning with Beef, Encapsulated Salt, Sodium Phosphates. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 84 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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
65/100
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.
21100037 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough label screening desk
28 of 84 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 21100037 · 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: Sausage Biscuit · Nearest score peer is Sausage Biscuit at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough scores 27.9 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough lists 84 ingredients on its label
84 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 7,008 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
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 271 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 84 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Fully cooked chopped beef steaks: beef, encapsulated salt, sodium phosphates, beef flavor (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, beef fat, natural flavor), seasoning (spices, garlic powder, dehydrated onion, sugar, paprika, turmeric, extractive of paprika, natural flavor). sour dough bread: enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, wheat gluten, sugar, contains less than 2 % of the following: salt, soybean oil, monocalcium phosphate, phosphoric acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, vinegar, dough conditioners (monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, enzymes), calcium propionate (preservative). buttered with butter flavored oil: soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, tbhq and citric acid added as preservatives, artificial color, dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. frisco sauce: french dressing (soybean oil, water, high fructose corn syrup, vinegar, salt, contains less than 2% of: tomato paste, paprika, spice, xanthan gum, egg yolk, propylene glycol alginate, natural flavor, caramel color, dried onion, yellow 6, calcium disodium edta [to protect flavor]), water, salad dressing (water, soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, vinegar, modified food starch, egg yolk, corn syrup, salt, paprika), sugar, tomato paste, tomato ketchup (tomato concentrate made from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, salt, onion powder, natural flavoring), whey, sweet pickle relish (cucumbers, high fructose corn syrup, water, vinegar, salt, cane sugar, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate [preservative], xanthan gum, natural flavoring, alum, polysorbate 80), mayonnaise spread mix (whey, modified food starch, maltodextrin, salt, citric acid, sugar, dehydrated onion, vinegar, dextrose, dehydrated garlic, natural flavor, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, spice, and no more than 2% silicon dioxide added to prevent caking), gelatin, modified food starch, vinegar, salt, spice. process american yellow cheese product: cultured milk and skim milk, whey, salt, sodium citrate, modified food starch, artificial color, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), lactic acid, enzymes, soy lecithin (non sticking agent). process american swiss cheese product: cultured milk and skim milk, whey, salt, sodium citrate, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), lactic acid, enzymes, soy lecithin (non sticking agent).
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough
Neighbours outside Steak 'N Shake near Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Steak 'N Shake; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 84 on 0071421100037).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (84 on 0071421100037).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 84-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Steak 'n shake, frisco melts, swiss & american cheese with frisco sauce on sourdough's 3 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 0071421100037: 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.