Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies
by Trader Joe's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 00747738 · Trader Joe's · Sweet pies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies by Trader Joe's scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 33-component record, beginning with Unbleached Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 33 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
00747738 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies label screening desk
10 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00747738 · 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: Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water · Nearest score peer is Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 299 products we've scored in the Sweet pies category, the average safety score is 73.7/100. Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies scores 16.3 points above that category average (90/100 vs. 73.7/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sweet pies products
Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies lists 33 ingredients on its label
33 57th percentile a longer ingredient list than 57% of the 60 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
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- 1 products (2%)
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- 5 products (8%)
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- 4 products (7%)
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- 2 products (3%)
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- 2 products (3%)
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- 7 products (12%)
- 38–40
- 2 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 12 products (20%)
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 60 Sweet pies 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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 33 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), APPLES, BUTTER (CREAM [MILK], SALT), BROWN SUGAR, EGGS, WATER, PUMPKIN PUREE, SUGAR, WHIPPING CREAM (CREAM [MILK], CARRAGEENAN), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF GLAZE (SUGAR, AGAR-AGAR), SALT, DEXTROSE, DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, CORNSTARCH, CULTURED WHEAT STARCH (TO PRESERVE), CINNAMON, YEAST, GINGER, NUTMEG, CARAMEL COLOR, ENZYMES, ALLSPICE, CLOVES
Other products containing Whipping Cream
Whipping Cream is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 134 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 33 on 00747738).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (33 on 00747738).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 33-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Apple & Pumpkin Hand Pies's 2 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 00747738: 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.