Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water
by Starkist
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0080000484482 · Starkist · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water by Starkist scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 50-component record, beginning with Light Tuna, Water, Vegetable Broth. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 50 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
90/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00484482 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water label screening desk
17 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 00484482 · 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: Mildly Sweet & Spicy Beef & Broccoli · Nearest score peer is Mildly Sweet & Spicy Beef & Broccoli 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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. Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water scores 3.6 points below that category average (90/100 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
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 11,283 products we track
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
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 50 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Tuna: light tuna, water, vegetable broth, salt., crackers: enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononirate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), whole wheat flour, canola an/or soybean oil with tbhq for freshness, sugar, contains 2% or less of salt, onion, whey, malt extract, corn syrup, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), caramel color, soy lecithin., reduced calorie mayonnaise: water. soybean oil, distilled white vinegar, modified food starch, high fructose corn syrup, egg whites, microcrystalline cellulose, salt, whey protein concentrate, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, mustard flour, natural flavor, onion powder, garlic powder, calcium disodium edta, oleoresin turmeric, oleoresin paprika., sweet relish: pickles (cucumbers, salt, calcium chloride), high fructose corn syrup, distilled white vinegar, natural and artificial flavorings, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, oleoresin turmeric, fd&c yellow #5 and blue #1, polysorbate 80.
Other products containing Water. Soybean Oil
Water. Soybean Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water
Neighbours outside Starkist with screening scores in the same high band as Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Starkist; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 50 on 0080000484482).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0080000484482).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 50-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk Light Tuna Salad In Water's 2 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 0080000484482: 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.