Safe

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich

by Bob Evans

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075900047622 · Bob Evans · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0075900047622 · Serving size 1 SANDWICH (127 g)

The verdict

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich by Bob Evans scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Bleached Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour. 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 56 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

00047622 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 56 ing. REG-PART 30% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 11% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-FINISH Dessert Dark Chocolate · ±0 BOOK-OFF …047622 · July 2026

17 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00047622 · 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.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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

1. Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Sausage, Egg & Cheese Bis…95/1002. Dessert Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Dessert Dark Chocolate Ho…95/1003. Dessert Topping Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Dessert Topping Dark Choc…95/1004. Dessert Topping, Extra Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Dessert Topping, Extra Da…95/1005. Vanilla buttercream bumpy cake: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Vanilla buttercream bumpy…95/100
High-band neighbours for Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich (95/100) outside Bob Evans.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich
95/100
Dessert Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge
95/100
Dessert Topping Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge
95/100
Dessert Topping, Extra Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge
95/100
Vanilla buttercream bumpy cake
95/100

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. Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich 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

Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich lists 56 ingredients on its label

56 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Below this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Below this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 56 (89th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
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 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Bleached Enriched Flour
2
Wheat Flour
3
Malted Barley Flour
4
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
5
Reduced Iron
6
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
9
Buttermilk
10
Cultured Low Fat Milk
11
Nonfat Dry Milk
12
Water
13
Whey Solids
14
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
15
Modified Food Starch
16
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
17
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
18
Pectin
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
19
Shortening Flakes
20
Palm Oil
21
Soy Lecithin
22
Natural & Artificial Flavor
23
Beta Carotene
24
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
25
Biscuit Concentrate
26
Leavening
27
Sodium Bicarbonate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
28
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
29
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
30
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
31
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
32
Iron
33
Calcium Propionate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT
Safe GRAS
34
Preservative
35
Calcium Sulfate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FORMULATION AID, LEAVENING AGENT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
36
Soybean
37
Cottonseed Oil
38
Guar Gum
39
Pork
40
Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate
41
Artificial Butter Flavor
42
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean And Cottonseed Oil
43
Natural Flavor
44
Medium Chain Triglycerides
45
Natural Butter Flavor
46
Xanthain Gum
47
Cheddar Cheese
48
Pasteurized Milk
49
Cheese Culture
50
Enzymes
51
Sodium Phosphate
52
Milkfat
53
Sodium Hexametaphosphate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
54
Sorbic Acid
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
55
Apo Carotenal
56
Color

Full Ingredient List

Biscuit: bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), buttermilk (cultured low fat milk, nonfat dry milk, water, whey solids, lactic acid, food starch, salt, carrageenan, pectin), shortening flakes (palm oil, soy lecithin, natural & artificial flavor, beta carotene, citric acid), 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 (preservative), calcium sulfate, soybean and/or cottonseed oil, guar gum), artificial flavor. sausage: pork, water, contain 2% or less of the following: water, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate, artificial butter flavor, (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, flavor, medium chain triglycerides), natural butter flavor, salt, sodium bicarbonate, xanthain gum, citric acid, white pepper. pasteurized process cheddar cheese: cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), water, sodium phosphate, milkfat, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), apo carotenal (color).

Categories

Meals

High-score cross-brand comparables for Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich

Neighbours outside Bob Evans with screening scores in the same high band as Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Bob Evans; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwich'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 0075900047622: 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.