Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0098308243229 · Better Than Bouillon · Dried products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base by Better Than Bouillon scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 10 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 10-component label led by Roasted Beef, Maltodextrin, Salt; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 10 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0098308243229
- 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.
08243229 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base label screening desk
3 of 10 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 08243229 · 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: Beef Gravy · Nearest score peer is Beef Gravy 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,493 products we've scored in the Dried products category, the average safety score is 85.8/100. Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base scores 9.2 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 85.8/100), 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 Dried products products
Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base lists 10 ingredients on its label
10 16th percentile a longer ingredient list than 16% of the 45 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 4–6
- 2 products (4%)
- 6–8
- 3 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 2 products (4%)
- 10–12
- 6 products (13%)
- 12–14
- 8 products (18%)
- 14–16
- 7 products (16%)
- 16–18
- 2 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 3 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 6 products (13%)
- 22–24
- 2 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 1 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 1 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 1 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 45 Dried 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 10 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ROASTED BEEF, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, CANE SUGAR, BEEF STOCK, YEAST EXTRACT, FLAVORING, FOOD STARCH, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVORS.
Other products containing Roasted Beef
Roasted Beef is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 29 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base
Neighbours outside Better Than Bouillon with screening scores in the same high band as Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Better Than Bouillon; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 10 on 0098308243229).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (10 on 0098308243229).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 10-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base'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 0098308243229: 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.