Red lentil Mac and cheese bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0085239182468 · Good And Gather · Baby foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Red lentil Mac and cheese bites by Good And Gather scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 50-component record, beginning with Cooked Elbow Pasta, Water, Red Lentil Elbow. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 50 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0085239182468
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/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.
39182468 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Red lentil Mac and cheese bites label screening desk
10 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 39182468 · 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: Apple Crisp Ice Cream · Nearest score peer is Apple Crisp Ice Cream 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 is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
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 991 products we've scored in the Baby foods category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Red lentil Mac and cheese bites scores 4.8 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Baby foods products
Red lentil Mac and cheese bites lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 894 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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- 40 and above
- 109 products (12%)
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 894 Baby 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 50 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked elbow pasta (water, red lentil elbow), cheddar cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, annatto), panko bread crumbs (wheat flour, cane sugar, yeast, sea salt), milk (milk, vitamin D3), tempura flour (bleached wheat flour, rice flour, cornstarch, leavening), low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), cream, modified food starch, liquid whole eggs with citric acid (whole egg, citric acid, water), cheddar cheese base (cheddar cheese concentrate, water, sodium phosphate, enzymes), salt, yeast extract, corn oil, sweet cream, butter (pasteurized cream, salt), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sea salt, onion, degermed yellow corn meal, tapioca dextrin, carrageenan, spices. Contains egg, milk, and wheat.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Red lentil Mac and cheese bites
Neighbours outside Good And Gather with screening scores in the same high band as Red lentil Mac and cheese bites (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Good And Gather; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 50 on 0085239182468).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0085239182468).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Red lentil Mac and cheese bites'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 Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Red lentil Mac and cheese bites'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 0085239182468: 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.