Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich
by Fast Bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071421106176 · Fast Bites · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich by Fast Bites scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 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 50-component record, beginning with Enriched Bleached 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 50 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
21106176 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich label screening desk
18 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Casein). Source sheet 21106176 · 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: Cheese- Burger Beef Patty With Cheese On A Bun · Nearest score peer is Cheese- Burger Beef Patty With Cheese On A Bun 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.
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.
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. Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 78th percentile a longer ingredient list than 78% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Sesame seed bun: enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzyme), water, sugar, soybean oil, sesame seeds, contains 2% or less of: yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid), salt, calcium propionate (preservative), monoglycerides with ascorbic acid and citric acid (antioxidants), calcium sulfate, enzymes, wheat starch, ascorbic acid. fully cooked pollock fillet: pollock (sodium tripolyphosphate [to retain moisture]), enriched bleached wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, modified food starch, yellow corn flour, enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), iodized salt, sugar, salt, dextrose, canola oil, yeast, onion powder, garlic powder, hydrolyzed corn protein, maltodextrin, malic acid, natural flavors, spice. precooked in canola, cottonseed and/or soybean oil. cheese product: water, palm oil, casein, modified food starch, dairy product solids, maltodextrin, sodium citrate, salt, natural flavor, lactic acid, sorbic acid (preservative), artificial color, soy lecithin (non-sticking agent).
Other products containing Monoglycerides With Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid
Monoglycerides With Ascorbic Acid And Citric Acid is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 89 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich
Neighbours outside Fast Bites with screening scores in the same high band as Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Fast Bites; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0071421106176).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Fast bites, fish and cheese sandwich has a longer ingredient list than 78% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Casein first, then work through the remaining 50 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0071421106176: 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.