Lobster Cakes
by Shaw's Southern Belle
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0074331905228 · Shaw's Southern Belle · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Lobster Cakes by Shaw's Southern Belle scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 74 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 74-component record, beginning with Imitation Lobster, 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 74 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.
31905228 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Lobster Cakes label screening desk
18 of 74 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 31905228 · 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 Lobster Bites · Nearest score peer is Seafood Lobster Bites 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 5,679 products we've scored in the Seafood category, the average safety score is 99.2/100. Lobster Cakes scores 4.2 points below that category average (95/100 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
Lobster Cakes lists 74 ingredients on its label
74 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
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- 39 products (1%)
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- 1,326 products (29%)
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- 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 74 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
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), lobster, bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, sugar, salt, sunflower oil, yeast, molasses), soybean oil, diced onions, water, diced celery. contains 2% or less of the following: egg yolks, distilled vinegar, egg white solids, oleoresin paprika, natural flavor, cultured sugar, potato starch, tapioca flour, leavening (calcium lactate, calcium carbonate, cream of tartar), cellulose gum, corn starch, methyl cellulose, xanthan gum, guar gum, mustard seed, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spices, garlic, basil, thyme, sea salt, parsley, cream solids, natural cream flavor, modified food starch, mono & diglycerides, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, garnished with: fish protein [(pollack and/or pacific whiting), water, wheat starch, egg white, sugar, sorbitol, contains 2% or less of: modified tapioca starch, potato starch, salt, natural and artificial flavors (crab, shrimp, lobster), rice wine (water, sugar, alcohol, rice, salt), calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, carrageenan, hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat protein, disodium inosinate and guanylate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, color added], water, wheat flour, sugar, sunflower oil, sea salt, yeast, parsley, xanthan gum.
Other products containing Imitation Lobster
Imitation Lobster is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
High-score cross-brand comparables for Lobster Cakes
Neighbours outside Shaw's Southern Belle with screening scores in the same high band as Lobster Cakes (95/100 here). No other Shaw's Southern Belle products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 74 on 0074331905228).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (74 on 0074331905228).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Lobster Cakes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 74-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Lobster 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 0074331905228: 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.