Seafood Lobster Bites
by Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods Inc.
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0074331904580 · Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods Inc. · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Seafood Lobster Bites by Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods Inc. scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 80 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 80-component record, beginning with Minced Lobster, Imitation Lobster, Fish Protein. 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 80 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
31904580 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Seafood Lobster Bites label screening desk
22 of 80 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 31904580 · 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: Lobster Cakes · Nearest score peer is Lobster 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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. Seafood Lobster Bites 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
Seafood Lobster Bites lists 80 ingredients on its label
80 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% 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 80 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Minced lobster, imitation lobster (fish protein, water, wheat/corn/tapioca starch, egg whites, soybean oil, crab flavor, natural crab extract, sugar, salt, calcium carbonate, carmine, and paprika), monterey jack cheese product (monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), imitation monterey jack cheese [water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, casein (milk), low moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), modified food starch, contains 2% or less of: salt, sodium citrate, kasal, lactic acid, natural flavor, citric acid, calcium hydroxide, beta carotene (color)] potato starch and powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor)), diced onions, wheat flour, creamer (water, corn syrup solids, palm oil, sodium caseinate (milk derivative), mono and diglycerides, dipotassium phosphate, sodium silicoaluminate, soy lecithin), diced red bell peppers, contains 2% or less of the following: yeast, soybean oil, vinegar, paprika, calcium disodium edta, methyl cellulose, xanthan gum, guar gum, whole eggs, citric acid, rice, cooked lobster paste, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, dextrose, natural flavoring, tomato powder, tapioca starch, clam broth, disodium inosinate and guanylate, sea salt, potassium chloride, garlic, high fructose corn syrup, annatto, medium-chain triglycerides, gum arabic, smoke flavoring, autolyzed yeast extract, garnished with: bread crumbs (wheat flour, sugar, caramel color, yeast, salt, extractives of paprika).
Other products containing Kasal
Kasal is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Seafood Lobster Bites
Neighbours outside Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Seafood Lobster Bites (95/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 80 on 0074331904580).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (80 on 0074331904580).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Seafood Lobster Bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 80-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Seafood Lobster Bites'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 0074331904580: 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.