Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0085239607107 · Target Stores · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites by Target Stores scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 84 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 84-component record, beginning with Water, Bleached Wheat Flour, Cooked White Meat Chicken. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 84 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
39607107 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites label screening desk
20 of 84 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 39607107 · 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: Zero-Calorie Sweetener With Sucralose · Nearest score peer is Zero-Calorie Sweetener With Sucralose 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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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. Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites lists 84 ingredients on its label
84 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 84 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, bleached wheat flour,cooked white meat chicken (white chicken meat, water, modified potato starch, salt, sodium phosphate), part skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultured, salt, enzymes), yellow corn flour, fully cooked bacon bits (cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium nitrite. may also contain smoke flavoring, dextrose, brown sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium ascorbate, potassium chloride, flavoring), green onions, soft cream cheese blend (milk, cream cheese [pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture], palm oil, cream, cheese culture, milkfat, salt, carob bean gum, mono-and diglycerides, lactic acid, apocarotenal [color]), ranch seasoning (maltodextrin, buttermilk, onion powder, garlic powder, modified corn starch, sour cream [cream, cultures, lactic acid], sugar, cultured nonfat milk, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, citric acid, cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], spices, dehydrated parsley, lactic acid, whey, dextrin, vinegar, natural and artificial flavors, salt, lipolyzed cream [butter, nonfat milk]), contains less than 2% of: dried onion, dried garlic, buttermilk powder, nonfat dry milk, spice extracts, dried whey, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), bacon fat and bacon bits [contains natural smoke flavor, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite], salt, silicon dioxide, hydrolyzed corn gluten, soy protein and wheat gluten, natural flavor [contains natural smoke flavor], disodium inosinate, smoked pork fat), modified corn starch, methylcellulose, artificial flavors, dextrose, yeast, oleoresin paprika, xanthan gum, citric acid, lactic acid, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, sugar, salt, soybean oil, caramel color. prefried in vegetable oil (soybean and/or cottonseed).
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites
Neighbours outside Target Stores with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Target Stores; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 84 on 0085239607107).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (84 on 0085239607107).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Bacon Ranch Bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 84-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Chicken Bacon Ranch 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 0085239607107: 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.