Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes
by Shaw's Southern Elle
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0074331904689 · Shaw's Southern Elle · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes by Shaw's Southern Elle scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 47 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 47-component record, beginning with Imitation Crab, Fish Protein, Water. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 47 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
31904689 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes label screening desk
12 of 47 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propylene Glycol Alginate). Source sheet 31904689 · 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: Seafood Dip · Nearest score peer is Seafood Dip 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.
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.
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 5,679 products we've scored in the Seafood category, the average safety score is 99.2/100. Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes scores 0.8 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.2/100), 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 Seafood products
Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes lists 47 ingredients on its label
47 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 4,524 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 39 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,326 products (29%)
- 4–6
- 1,158 products (26%)
- 6–8
- 327 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 167 products (4%)
- 10–12
- 156 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 185 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 129 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 152 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 124 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 112 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 77 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 75 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 53 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 56 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 52 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 37 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 25 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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
Full Ingredient List
Imitation crab (fish protein, water, wheat/corn/tapioca starch, egg whites, soybean oil, crab flavor, natural crab extract, sugar, salt, calcium carbonate), jumbo lump crabmeat, soybean oil, wheat flour, water, diced onions, diced celery, dried whole egg, creamer (cream, guar gum, xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate, salt, mono and diglycerides, disodium phosphate), contains 2% or less of the following: distilled vinegar, oleoresin paprika, yeast, evaporated cane juice, sea salt citric acid, dried whole egg, corn starch, methyl cellulose, xanthan gum, guar gum mustard seed, white wine, tartaric acid, spices, cultured dextrose, celery salt (salt, celery seed), garlic, parsley, autolyzed yeast extract, maltodextrin, hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolyzed corn gluten, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, thiamine hydrochloride, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate.
Categories
High-score cross-brand comparables for Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes
Neighbours outside Shaw's Southern Elle with screening scores in the same high band as Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes (100/100 here). No other Shaw's Southern Elle products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (47 on 0074331904689).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Seafood Maryland Style Crab Cakes has a longer ingredient list than 98% of its Seafood category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Propylene Glycol Alginate first, then work through the remaining 47 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0074331904689: 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.