Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075706151202 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 76 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 76-component record, beginning with Enriched Unbleached Wheat 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 76 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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
55/100
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.
06151202 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli label screening desk
18 of 76 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 06151202 · 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
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
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. Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli scores 37.9 points below that category average (55/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Frozen foods products
Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli lists 76 ingredients on its label
76 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
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- 36–38
- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 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 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 76 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Dough: enriched unbleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, palm oil, sugar, salt, semolina flour (semolina [milled from durum wheat], niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), garlic powder, yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid), dough conditioner (wheat flour, ascorbic acid, enzymes). filling: cheese blend (part skim mozzarella cheese [pasteurized part skim milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], ricotta cheese [whey, whole milk, cream, vinegar, and xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum {stabilizers}], natural cheese flavor [cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese, romano cheese, mozzarella cheese {all made with pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes}, whey protein powder, maltodextrin, salt]), cooked meatballs (beef, pork, water, romano cheese [pasteurized sheep's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], bread crumbs [wheat flour, sugar, salt, yeast, canola oil], soy protein concentrate, ricotta cheese [whey, pasteurized whole milk, vinegar, salt), salt, natural flavorings, brown sugar, spices, dehydrated parsley), pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of sugar, spices, oleoresin of paprika, sodium ascorbate, natural flavorings, garlic powder, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid), tomato sauce (water, tomato paste, spice blend [sugar, salt, spices, less than 2% silicon dioxide added to prevent caking], garlic puree, guar gum, soybean oil). topping: parmesan & romano cheese blend (parmesan cheese [made from cow's milk, salt, enzymes], romano cheese [made from cow's milk, salt, enzymes], powdered cellulose/starch blend added to prevent caking), bread crumbs (bleached flour, water, vegetable oil [soybean oil, cottonseed oil, and/or canola oil], salt, yeast, contains 2% or less of the following: sugar, dextrose), parsley.
Other products containing Milled From Durum Wheat
Milled From Durum Wheat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 13 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 76-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Italian style melt, meatballs and pepperoni stromboli's 3 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 0075706151202: 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.