Chicken salad croissant
by Food City
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0205355908999 · Food City · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken salad croissant by Food City scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 53-component record, beginning with Young Chickens, Without Necks Or Giblets, Containing Water. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 53 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
48/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
70/100
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.
55908999 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken salad croissant label screening desk
18 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 55908999 · 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: Juice cocktail · Nearest score peer is Juice cocktail 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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Chicken salad croissant scores 18.9 points below that category average (70/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Chicken salad croissant lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 63rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 63% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 1,215 Sandwiches 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 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Young chickens (without necks or giblets) containing water, seasoning (salt, sodium tripolyphosphate, brown sugar, rice starch, dextrose, garragenan, sodium acid pyrophosphate, garlic powder, spice extractives, xanthan gum, vinegar), flour (enriched wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), enzyme, ascorbic acid, butter, sugar, salt, yeast, dough conditioner (wheat flour, malted barley flour, ascorbic acid, enzymes), egg yolks, distilled vinegar, cider vinegar, mustard seed, lemon juice, onion juice, oleoresin paprika, calcium disodium EDTA, celery, raw cucumbers, high fructose corn syrup, lactic acid, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate (preservative), spice, dehydrated red bell pepper, alum, yellow 5, polysorbate 80, natural flavor, grape.
Other products containing Onion Juice
Onion Juice is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 254 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Food City
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken salad croissant
Neighbours outside Food City near Chicken salad croissant's mid-band score (70/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Food City; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 53 on 0205355908999).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (53 on 0205355908999).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken salad croissant's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 53-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Chicken salad croissant's 2 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 0205355908999: 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.