Concern

Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk

by Odom's tennessee pride

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0072290000220 · Odom's tennessee pride · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0072290000220 · Serving size 1 SANDWICH (128 g)

The verdict

Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk by Odom's tennessee pride scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Buttermilk Biscuit, Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour. 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 56 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.

90000220 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 65/100 FLAG-FEW 3 flagged LEN-DENSE 56 ing. REG-PART 36% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 11% LEAD-FLAG Propyl Gallate PHOTO-FINISH Sausage Sandwiches · ±0 BOOK-OFF …000220 · July 2026

20 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propyl Gallate). Source sheet 90000220 · 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 Sandwiches · Nearest score peer is Sausage Sandwiches 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

1. Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk: 65/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Sausage Egg & Cheese Butt…65/1002. Sausage Sandwiches: 65/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Sausage Sandwiches65/1003. Sausage Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches: 65/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Sausage Buttermilk Biscui…65/1004. Sausage Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches: 65/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Sausage Buttermilk Biscui…65/1005. Sausage Sandwiches: 65/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Sausage Sandwiches65/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk (65/100 on 56 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

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

Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk
65/100
Sausage Sandwiches
65/100
Sausage Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches
65/100
Sausage Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches
65/100
Sausage Sandwiches
65/100

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. Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk scores 28.6 points below that category average (65/100 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

Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk lists 56 ingredients on its label

56 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% 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%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Below this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Below this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 56 (89th 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 65/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Buttermilk Biscuit
2
Enriched Wheat Flour
3
Wheat Flour
4
Malted Barley Flour
5
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Iron
7
Thiamin Mononitrate
8
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
9
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
10
Water
11
Buttermilk
12
Palm Oil
13
Nonfat Milk
14
Leavening
15
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
16
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
17
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
18
Aluminum Sulfate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
19
Monocalcium Phosphate
20
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
21
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
22
Sodium Caseinate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
23
Datem
Emulsifier
Safe
24
Sodium Propionate And Potassium Sorbate
25
Preservatives
26
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
27
Wheat Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
28
Natural Flavor
29
Corn Starch
30
Sorbic Acid
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
31
Egg Patty
32
Whole Eggs
33
Milk
34
Soybean Oil
35
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
36
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
37
Sausage Patty
38
Pork
39
Spices And Spice Extractives
40
Sodium Phosphate
41
Msg
42
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
43
BHT
Caution GRAS
44
Propyl Gallate
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Avoid GRAS
45
Pasteurized Process American Cheese
46
American Cheese
47
Cultured Milk
48
Enzymes
49
Annatto
Coloring
Certain People Should Avoid
50
Cream
51
Sodium Citrate
52
Acetic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT
Safe GRAS
53
Preservative
54
Soy Lecithin
55
Apo-carotenal And Beta Carotene
56
Color

Full Ingredient List

Buttermilk Biscuit (Enriched Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Water, Buttermilk, Palm Oil, Nonfat Milk, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Leavening [Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Aluminum Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate], Sugar, Salt, Sodium Caseinate, Datem, Sodium Propionate And Potassium Sorbate [Preservatives], Dextrose, Wheat Starch, Natural Flavor, Corn Starch, Sorbic Acid), Egg Patty (Whole Eggs, Water, Milk, Soybean Oil, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid), Sausage Patty (Pork, Water, Salt, Spices And Spice Extractives, Sodium Phosphate, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Caramel Color, Bht, Citric Acid, Propyl Gallate), Pasteurized Process American Cheese (American Cheese [Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes, Annatto {Color}], Water, Cream, Sodium Citrate, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Acetic Acid, Sorbic Acid [Preservative], Soy Lecithin, Apo-Carotenal And Beta Carotene [Color]).

Other products containing Apo-carotenal And Beta Carotene

Apo-carotenal And Beta Carotene is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Meals

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk

Neighbours outside Odom's tennessee pride near Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Odom's tennessee pride; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Propyl Gallate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Propyl Gallate. Open Propyl Gallate
  • Compare Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage Egg & Cheese Buttermilk'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 0072290000220: 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.