Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original
by Bob Evans
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075900004106 · Bob Evans · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original by Bob Evans scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 66 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 66-component record, beginning with Sausage Gravy, Water, Pork Sausage. 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 66 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.
00004106 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original label screening desk
22 of 66 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00004106 · 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: Dessert Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge · Nearest score peer is Dessert Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge 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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original scores 1.4 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original lists 66 ingredients on its label
66 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,283 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
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 412 products (4%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
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- 574 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 66 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Sausage gravy (water, pork sausage (pork, seasoning [salt, natural spices, sugar, monosodium glutamate]), gravy mix (food starch-modified, palm oil, maltodextrin, enriched bleached flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], salt, corn syrup solids, sugar, contains less than 2%: black pepper, high oleic sunflower oil, sodium caseinate [a milk derivative], hydrolyzed vegetable protein [corn, soy, and/or wheat], autolyzed yeast extract, mono glycerides, natural and artificial flavor, sodium citrate, potassium chloride, carrageenan, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, color added), cultured dextrose), biscuit (bleached enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], buttermilk [cultured low fat milk, food starch, salt, sodium citrate, carob bean gum, carrageenan, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3], palm oil, biscuit concentrate [leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), salt, sugar, dextrose, bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), calcium propionate, calcium sulfate, soybean and /or cottonseed oil, guar gum], shortening [palm oil, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, beta-carotene (color)], artificial butter flavor, potassium sorbate (to preserve freshness).
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original
Neighbours outside Bob Evans with screening scores in the same high band as Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Bob Evans; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 66 on 0075900004106).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (66 on 0075900004106).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 66-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Original pork sausage gravy & biscuits, original'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 0075900004106: 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.