Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta
by Zatarain's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071429012516 · Zatarain's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta by Zatarain's scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 74 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 74-component record, beginning with Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product, Water, Durum Wheat Semolina. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 74 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
80/100
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.
29012516 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta label screening desk
15 of 74 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 29012516 · 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: Café Style Chef Salad · Nearest score peer is Café Style Chef 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.
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. Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta scores 12.9 points below that category average (80/100 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
Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta lists 74 ingredients on its label
74 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% 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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- 284 products (4%)
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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
How the 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 74 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked enriched macaroni product (water, durum wheat semolina [enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]), water, blackened seasoned grilled chicken tenders (chicken tenders, water, blackened seasoning [salt, spices {including red pepper and paprika}, soy protein isolate, modified potato starch, sodium phosphate, corn starch, onion, carrageenan, garlic, extractives of oregano, soy lecithin]), half and half (milk, cream), margarine (liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, vegetable mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, bha & bht added to protect flavor, vitamin a palmitate and vitamin d3 added), sweet dairy whey, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), cheese flavors (a dehydrated blend of parmesan and romano cheeses [part-skim cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], whey, buttermilk solids, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, sodium phosphate, salt), heavy cream sauce (shortening powder [partially hydrogenated soybean oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate and mono and diglycerides], corn maltodextrin, modified corn starch, dehydrated sweet cream [pasteurized sweet cream, skim milk solids, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin, bht], salt, sugar, garlic powder, lemon juice powder [corn syrup solids, lemon juice, bht], natural butter flavor, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate), green onions, nonfat dry milk, dry buttermilk, modified corn starch, canola oil, corn maltodextrin, paprika, sea salt, yeast extract, parsley flakes, granulated garlic, spices, dextrose, granulated onion, xanthan gum, chili powder (chili pepper, spices, salt, garlic powder), sugar.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta
Neighbours outside Zatarain's with screening scores in the same high band as Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Zatarain's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 74 on 0071429012516).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (74 on 0071429012516).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 74-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
- Compare Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta's 2 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 0071429012516: 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.