Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water
by Starkist
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0080000484499 · Starkist · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water by Starkist scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 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 53-component record, beginning with White 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 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
00484499 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water label screening desk
18 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 00484499 · 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.
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 12,141 products we've scored in the Canned foods category, the average safety score is 98.5/100. Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water scores 8.5 points below that category average (90/100 vs. 98.5/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Seafood products
Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 4,524 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
- 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%)
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- 156 products (3%)
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- 185 products (4%)
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- 129 products (3%)
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- 152 products (3%)
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- 124 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 112 products (2%)
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- 74 products (2%)
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- 77 products (2%)
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- 75 products (2%)
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- 53 products (1%)
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- 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
How the 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Tuna: white tuna, water, vegetable broth, salt, pyrophosphate. contains: fish (tuna), soy crackers: enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), whole wheat flour, canola and/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 Fd&c Yellow #5 And Blue #1
Fd&c Yellow #5 And Blue #1 is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 18 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water
Neighbours outside Starkist with screening scores in the same high band as Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna 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 53 on 0080000484499).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (53 on 0080000484499).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna In Water's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 53-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Charlie's Lunch Kit, Chunk White Albacore Tuna 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 0080000484499: 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.