Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks
by Hy-Vee
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075450229592 · Hy-Vee · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks by Hy-Vee scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 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 50-component record, beginning with Mozzarella Cheese, Cultured Pasteurized Part-skim Milk, Salt. 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 50 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
50229592 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks label screening desk
13 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 50229592 · 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: Caramel Pecan Ice Cream · Nearest score peer is Caramel Pecan Ice Cream 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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks 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 Dairies products
Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product 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
- 120 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,805 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 4,714 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 2,694 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,996 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 1,884 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 1,734 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 1,639 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 1,261 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 841 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 481 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 303 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 228 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 151 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 122 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 115 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 81 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 57 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 45 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 33 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 134 products (1%)
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 21,438 Dairies 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 50 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt, enzymes), bleached wheat flour, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola), yellow corn flour, water, modified corn starch, enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, food starch modified, dried whey, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), yeast, garlic powder, parsley, spices, parmesan and romano cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, cultures), guar gum, paprika extract (color), onion powder, dextrose, dehydrated parsley, whey, sugar, natural flavor, nonfat milk, soy flour, sodium alginate, modified food starch, lactic acid, oleoresin paprika, caramel color, extractives of paprika, turmeric and annatto, spice extractive, egg.
Other products containing Parmesan And Romano Cheese
Parmesan And Romano Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 140 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks
Neighbours outside Hy-Vee with screening scores in the same high band as Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hy-Vee; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 50 on 0075450229592).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0075450229592).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 50-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Family size mozzarella sticks in a crispy breading, mozzarella sticks'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 0075450229592: 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.