Family Style Meat Lasagna
by Trader Joe’s
Scores 100/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with no flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Family Style Meat Lasagna by Trader Joe’s scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 33-component record, beginning with Organic Pasta, Water, Durum Wheat Semolina. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- flagged ingredients of 33 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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.
00951128 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Family Style Meat Lasagna label screening desk
Family Style Meat Lasagna scores 100/100 across a 33-component declaration with no caution flags in the parsed set. 6 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Chloride). Longer lists compress many small registry contributions into one figure — see the table below. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Pepermint hot chocolate · Nearest score peer is Pepermint hot chocolate 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Family Style Meat Lasagna scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong 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
Family Style Meat Lasagna lists 33 ingredients on its label
33 45th percentile a longer ingredient list than 45% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
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- 298 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
Full Ingredient List
Pasta (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina, Egg White Powder), Water, Part-skim Ricotta Cheese (Whey, Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Citric Acid [Acidifier]), Beef, Pork, Low-moisture Part-skim Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Calcium Chloride, Microbial Enzyme), Crushed Tomatoes, Diced Tomatoes In Juice (Tomato, Tomato Juice, Citric Acid [Acidifier], Calcium Chloride), Onion, Distilled Vinegar, Modified Cornstarch, Skim Milk Powder, Salt, Romano Cheese Made From Cow's Milk (Milk, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Microbial Enzyme, Calcium Chloride), Spices, Garlic, Cane Sugar, Parmesan Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Calcium Chloride, Microbial Enzyme), Granulated Onion, Yeast Extract, Granulated Garlic.
Other products containing Part-skim Ricotta Cheese
Part-skim Ricotta Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Family Style Meat Lasagna
Neighbours outside Trader Joe’s with screening scores in the same high band as Family Style Meat Lasagna (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe’s; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (33 on 00951128).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
6 of 33 parsed ingredients on Family Style Meat Lasagna match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
- Review Calcium Chloride as the most distinctive source-covered entry on this label. Inspect ingredients
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 00951128: 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.