Hand Made Crab Cakes
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742203034 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hand Made Crab Cakes scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 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 53-component record, beginning with Swimming Crab, Mayonnaise, Soybean 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 53 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
42203034 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hand Made Crab Cakes label screening desk
11 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Iodide). Source sheet 42203034 · 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.
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.
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. Hand Made Crab Cakes 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
Hand Made Crab Cakes lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 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
Swimming crab, mayonnaise (soybean oil and/or canola oil, egg yolks, vinegar, water, salt, sugar, calcium disodium edta preservative), bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, dextrose, salt, yeast), eggs (eggs, citric acid preservative), red bell peppers, liquid margarine (soybean oil and hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, contains less than 2% of mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin, sodium benzoate (preservative), citric acid, artificial flavor, calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor, beta-carotene color, vitamin a palmitate), green onions, modified food starch, dijon mustard (water, vinegar, mustard seed, salt, white wine, pectin, citric acid, tartaric acid, sugar, spice), garlic (garlic, water, phosphoric acid, sodium benzoate preservative, potassium sorbate preservative), iodized salt (salt, potassium iodide), seasoning blend (salt, spices, paprika color, natural flavor), white pepper, lemon zest (chopped lemon peels, cane sugar, natural lemon flavor), parsley flakes, sodium acid pyrophosphate to retain color.
Other products containing Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate To Retain Color
Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate To Retain Color 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
Hand Made Crab Cakes has a longer ingredient list than 82% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Potassium Iodide first, then work through the remaining 53 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 0078742203034: 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.