Crab & Shrimp Cakes
by Handy
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073994005962 · Handy · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Crab & Shrimp Cakes by Handy scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 57 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 57-component record, beginning with Crab Meat, Shrimp, Mayonnaise. 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 57 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.
94005962 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Crab & Shrimp Cakes label screening desk
12 of 57 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 94005962 · 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: Handy, crab & shrimp cakes · Nearest score peer is Handy, crab & shrimp cakes 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. Crab & Shrimp Cakes 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
Crab & Shrimp Cakes lists 57 ingredients on its label
57 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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 57 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Crab meat, shrimp, mayonnaise (soybean oil, egg and egg yolk, water, sugar, vinegar, salt, mustard powder, acetic acid, xanthan gum), gluten free bread crumbs (rice flour, water, eggs, tapioca starch, potato starch, sugar, refined soybean oil, salt, yeast, guar gum), eggs, scallions, cornstarch, dijon mustard (distilled vinegar, water, no. 1 grade mustard seed, salt, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spices and turmeric), seasoning (celery salt [salt, celery seed], spices [including mustard, red peppers, black peppers, bay (laurel) leaves, cloves, allspice (pimento), ginger mace, cardamom, cinnamon], paprika), worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, sugar, spices, anchovies, tamarind, natural flavor [contains soy]), hot sauce (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt), garlic.
Other products containing Egg And Egg Yolk
Egg And Egg Yolk is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Crab & Shrimp Cakes
Neighbours outside Handy with screening scores in the same high band as Crab & Shrimp Cakes (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Handy; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 57 on 0073994005962).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (57 on 0073994005962).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Crab & Shrimp Cakes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 57-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Crab & Shrimp Cakes'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 0073994005962: 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.