Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce
by Michelina's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073369149925 · Michelina's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce by Michelina's scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 58 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 58-component record, beginning with Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product, Water, Durum 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 58 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
65/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
69149925 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce label screening desk
15 of 58 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 69149925 · 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: Jerky chips · Nearest score peer is Jerky chips 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. Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce scores 2.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Frozen foods products
Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce lists 58 ingredients on its label
58 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 58 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked enriched macaroni product (water, durum semolina [enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]). water, diced tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, salt, calcium chloride, citric acid), beef, tomato paste, onions, low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (cheese, [cultured pasteurized part skim milk, salt, enzymes], modified food starch), less than 1% of beef base (roasted beef and concentrated beef stock, salt, hydrolyzed plant protein [soy, corn, wheat], corn oil, sugar, autolyzed yeast flavoring [dried onion and garlic, spice extractive], maltodextrin, dried whey, dextrose, caramel color), canola oil, romano cheese (pasteurized part skim cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), garlic (with water and citric acid), salt, modified food starch, maltodextrin, spices, 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), sugar, granulated garlic, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt, lactic acid, less than 1/10% sodium benzoate as a preservative). xanthan gum, maltodextrin and natural flavor.
Other products containing Less Than 1/10% Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative
Less Than 1/10% Sodium Benzoate As A Preservative is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce
Neighbours outside Michelina's with screening scores in the same high band as Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Michelina's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 58 on 0073369149925).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (58 on 0073369149925).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 58-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Gourmet Lasagna With Meat Sauce'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 0073369149925: 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.