Tilapia
by Costco
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0079300011962 · Costco · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tilapia by Costco scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 57 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 57-component record, beginning with Tilapia, Vegetable Oil, Canola. 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 57 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.
00011962 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tilapia label screening desk
16 of 57 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Torula yeast). Source sheet 00011962 · 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: Basil pesto tilapia · Nearest score peer is Basil pesto tilapia 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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Tilapia 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 Seafood products
Tilapia lists 57 ingredients on its label
57 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 4,524 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 39 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,326 products (29%)
- 4–6
- 1,158 products (26%)
- 6–8
- 327 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 167 products (4%)
- 10–12
- 156 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 185 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 129 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 152 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 124 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 112 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 77 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 75 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 53 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 56 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 52 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 37 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 25 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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
Tilapia, vegetable oil (canola, soybean, and/or sunflower), tortilla chips [yellow whole corn, vegetable oil (contains corn and/or soybean and/or sunflower oil)], corn starch, enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), contains 2% or less of: enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), citric acid, wheat flour, sea salt, salt, yeast, water, malted barley flour, white corn flour, torula yeast, corn syrup, garlic powder, cilantro, chipotle pepper, whey, yeast extract, yellow corn flour, soy flour, corn cereal, dextrose, modified corn starch, chili powder (chili pepper, cumin, oregano, salt, dehydrated garlic), spices, vinegar, sugar, palm oil, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), jalapeno peppers, natural flavors, onion powder, fruit and vegetable juice concentrate (color), paprika (color), turmeric (color).
Other products containing Yellow Whole Corn
Yellow Whole Corn is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Costco
High-score cross-brand comparables for Tilapia
Neighbours outside Costco with screening scores in the same high band as Tilapia (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Costco; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (57 on 0079300011962).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Tilapia has a longer ingredient list than 99% of its Seafood category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Torula yeast first, then work through the remaining 57 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 0079300011962: 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.