Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl
by Great Value
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742028651 · Great Value · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl by Great Value scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 48 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 48-component record, beginning with Diced Dehydrated Potatoes, Potatoes, Vegetable Oil. 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 48 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
65/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
42028651 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl label screening desk
11 of 48 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 42028651 · 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: Triple Chocolate Sliced Loaf Cake · Nearest score peer is Triple Chocolate Sliced Loaf Cake 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.
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. Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl 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 & Gravy Breakfast Bowl lists 48 ingredients on its label
48 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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 48 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Diced potatoes (potatoes, vegetable oil [soybean and/or cotton seed oil], maltodextrin, salt, dextrose, tetrasodium pyrophosphate and sodium acid pyrophosphate [to maintain color]), gravy (water, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, cream solids, soybean oil, buttermilk powder, nonfat milk, salt, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, spices, yeast extract, butter [cream, salt], xanthan gum), precooked scrambled eggs (whole eggs, skim milk, soybean oil, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, liquid pepper extract, salt, citric acid, artificial butter flavor [soybean oil, butter, lipolyzed butter fat, flavors, artificial flavors]), cooked pork sausage crumbles (pork, water, contains 2% or less of: salt, sugar, spices, natural flavor [with maltodextrin, succinic acid], sodium phosphates, caramel color), shredded cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto extract [color], cellulose [to prevent caking], natamycin [mold inhibitor]).
Other products containing Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate And Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate And Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl
Neighbours outside Great Value with screening scores in the same high band as Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Great Value; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 48 on 0078742028651).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (48 on 0078742028651).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 48-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Sausage & Gravy Breakfast Bowl'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 0078742028651: 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.