Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna
by Starkist
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0080000514202 · Starkist · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna by Starkist scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 15 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 15-component label led by Light Tuna, Water, Sunflower Oil; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 15 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
00514202 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna label screening desk
5 of 15 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 00514202 · 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: Coconut Creamer · Nearest score peer is Coconut Creamer at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
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. Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna scores 13.5 points below that category average (85/100 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
Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna lists 15 ingredients on its label
15 76th percentile a longer ingredient list than 76% of the 4,524 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 39 products (1%)
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- 1,326 products (29%)
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- 1,158 products (26%)
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- 327 products (7%)
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- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 15 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
light tuna, water, sunflower oil, buttermilk solids, contains 2% or less of the following: vinegar, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, spices, salt, xanthan gum, natural flavors, monosodium glutamate, titanium dioxide, acetic acid,
Other products containing Light Tuna
Light Tuna is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 309 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna
Neighbours outside Starkist with screening scores in the same high band as Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna (85/100 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 (1 flagged of 15 on 0080000514202).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (15 on 0080000514202).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 15-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
- Compare Tuna Creations Ranch Lightly Seasoned Premium Tuna's 1 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 0080000514202: 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.