Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742144535 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 60 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 60-component record, beginning with Chicken, Water, Breading. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 60 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
42144535 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs label screening desk
12 of 60 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Propionate). Source sheet 42144535 · 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
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.
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. Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong 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
Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs lists 60 ingredients on its label
60 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Chicken, water, breading (whole wheat flour, wheat flour, canola oil, salt, yeast, malted barley flour, ascorbic acid), soybean oil, predust (wheat flour, wheat gluten, salt), part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skimmed cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, calcium propionate [preservative]), cayenne pepper puree (cayenne pepper, salt, vinegar), batter (wheat flour, degerminated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, yeast extract), pasteurized process blue cheese (cultured milk, cream, skim milk, sodium phosphates, salt, enzymes, penicillium roquefortii), seasoning (soy protein isolate, nonfat dry milk, salt, hydrolyzed soy and wheat protein, sodium phosphate, dextrose, onion powder, spice extractives), modified food starch, grated parmesan cheese (cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, calcium propionate [preservative]), vinegar, natural flavors, citric acid, sodium phosphate, glaze (corn syrup solids, modified cornstarch, guar gum), blue cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, penicillium roquefortii), xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), sodium benzoate (preservative), butter flavor (maltodextrin, modified food starch, natural flavor [with milk]).
Other products containing Pasteurized Process Blue Cheese
Pasteurized Process Blue Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Buffalo style stuffed chicken meatballs has a longer ingredient list than 89% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Calcium Propionate first, then work through the remaining 60 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0078742144535: 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.