Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0088374704656 · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 62 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 62-component record, beginning with Beef, Water, Organic Onions. 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 62 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
74704656 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce label screening desk
10 of 62 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 74704656 · 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
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.
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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce scores 2.6 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce lists 62 ingredients on its label
62 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 79 products (1%)
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- 430 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 612 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 1,485 products (13%)
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- 1,698 products (15%)
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- 1,463 products (13%)
- 14–16
- 996 products (9%)
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- 734 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 489 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 377 products (3%)
- 22–24
- 277 products (2%)
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- 234 products (2%)
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- 140 products (1%)
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- 145 products (1%)
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- 92 products (1%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 74 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 50 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 238 products (2%)
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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 62 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Beef, water, onions, textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel color), breadcrumbs (bleached wheat flour, sugar, salt, yeast, and canola oil), soy protein concentrate, seasoning (salt, corn syrup solids, corn starch, chicken fat, sugar, dehydrated onion, artificial flavor, turmeric, spices, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, spice extractives), seasoning (dextrose, salt, spices, dehydrated onion, spice extractives), egg whites, ground mustard, barbeque sauce: molasses, water, tomato paste, sugar, white vinegar, prepared mustard (water, white distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, sugar, soybean oil, turmeric and annatto, garlic, spices, xanthan gum, calcium disodium edta [protects flavor] natural flavor), cider vinegar, soybean or canola oil, modified food starch, spices, salt, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (preservative) beef base (roasted beef and concentrated beef stock, salt, hydrolyzed protein [corn and wheat gluten, soy, wheat corn], proteins, yeast extract, maltodextrin, palm oil, sugar, onion powder, caramel color, corn oil, potato starch, partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oil, disodium inosinate/disodium guanylate, modified food starch, natural flavors) liquid smoke flavors.
Other products containing Proteins
Proteins is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 25 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 62-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Beef meatballs with barbecue sauce'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 0088374704656: 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.