Broccoli & cheese bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0085239607220 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Broccoli & cheese bites scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 64 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 64-component record, beginning with Broccoli Florets, Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese, Cultured Milk. 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 64 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
39607220 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Broccoli & cheese bites label screening desk
15 of 64 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 39607220 · 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
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.
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. Broccoli & cheese bites scores 17.9 points below that category average (75/100 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
Broccoli & cheese bites lists 64 ingredients on its label
64 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 271 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 64 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Broccoli florets, pasteurized process cheddar cheese (cultured milk, water, milkfat, skim milk, sodium phosphates, salt, artificial color, enzymes), sharp cheddar cheese sauce (cheese whey, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, modified tapioca starch, modified corn starch, maltodextrin, cheddar cheese [milk, cultures, salt and enzymes], sodium phosphate, salt, natural and artificial flavor, vinegar, citric acid, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium hexameta-phosphate, phosphoric acid, mono and diglycerides, added color [annatto, carotene, paprika]). battered with water, wheat flour, yellow corn flour, modified corn starch, soy protein isolate, nonfat dry milk, dried egg whites, yellow 5, red 40. breaded with bleached wheat flour, dried whey, salt, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil (as a processing aid). breaded with enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, sugar, yeast, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, soybean oil, dehydrated parsley, spice, iodized, salt, carmel color, calcium propionate (preservative), extractives of paprika. parfried with clear liquid frying shortening (fully refined soybean oil), dimethylpolysiloxane (anti-foam agent), tbhq anti-oxidant (added to preserve freshness).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Broccoli & cheese bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 64-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Broccoli & 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 0085239607220: 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.