Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073321071486 · J&J Snack Foods Corp · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef by J&J Snack Foods Corp scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 29-component label is layered, beginning with Pretzel Roll, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 29 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
21071486 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef label screening desk
11 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 21071486 · 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: Creme dip · Nearest score peer is Creme dip 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 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
Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef lists 29 ingredients on its label
29 36th percentile a longer ingredient list than 36% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 319 products (5%)
- 36–38
- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 29 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Pretzel roll [enriched bleached wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, brown sugar, vegetable shortening (palm oil), yeast, malt, salt, bicarbonates and carbonates of soda), beef cocktail franks [beef, water contains less than 2% of salt, sorbitol, potassium lactate, natural flavorings, sodium phosphate, hydrolyzed corn protein, paprika, hickory smoke flavor, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite].
Other products containing Pretzel Roll
Pretzel Roll is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef
Neighbours outside J&J Snack Foods Corp with screening scores in the same high band as Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within J&J Snack Foods Corp; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 29 on 0073321071486).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (29 on 0073321071486).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 29-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Soft pretzel mini beef hot dog, beef's 1 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 0073321071486: 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.