Char Siu
by Trader Joe's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0293392105990 · Trader Joe's · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Char Siu by Trader Joe's scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 46 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 46-component record, beginning with Pork, Sugar, Dehydrated Soy Sauce. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 46 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0293392105990
- 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
92105990 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Char Siu label screening desk
9 of 46 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Propyl Gallate). Source sheet 92105990 · 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: trident · Nearest score peer is trident 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.
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 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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Char Siu scores 7.4 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Char Siu lists 46 ingredients on its label
46 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 11,159 products 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%)
- 8–10
- 1,485 products (13%)
- 10–12
- 1,698 products (15%)
- 12–14
- 1,463 products (13%)
- 14–16
- 996 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 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%)
- 26–28
- 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%)
- 36–38
- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 46 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PORK, SUGAR, SOY SAUCE (WATER. WHEAT. SOYBEANS SALT. ALCOHOL), WATER, MUSTARD SEASONING (MUSTARD, SALT, SUGAR, XANTHAN GUM OLEORESIN TURMERIC.POTASSIUM SORBATE. SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVEST, NATURAL FLAVOR), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: BETA-AROTENE (COLOR).CARAMEL COLOR.CHINESE HOT MUSTARD (WATER, MUSTARD, TUMERIC POTASSIUM SORBATE.AND SODIUM BENZOATE AS, PRESERVATIVE, 「MUSTARD, SALT, SUGAR, XANTHAN GUM, OLEORESIN, VINEGAR), CITRIC ACID, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, RIBOFLAVIN FOCIN.REDUCED IRON. THIAMINE MONONITRATE., ACACIA HOISIN SAUCE (SUGAR, WATER, SWEET POTATO, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH. SOY BEANS SPICES.SESAME SEEDS. CARAMEL COLOR. WHEAT FLOUR, GARLIC, CHILI PEPPER.ACETIC ACID).MONO - & DIGLYCERIDES., NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR.NONFAT MILK, PALM OIL, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), PROPYL GALLATE, PROPYLENE GLYCOL,, PROPYLENE GLYCOL ALGINATE.RED 40,SALT, SALT, SODIUM BENZOATE, SODIUM NITRITE. SODIUM PHOSPHATE,SOY LECITHIN, SOYBEAN OIL,, FITES TITANIUM DIOXIDE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE. WHITE VINEGAR,, MAN GUM.YELLOW 5. YELLOW 6##TOMK## **CONTAINS: MILK.SOY., MADE AND SESAME.**MAY CONTAIN EGG. PERISHABLE-KEEP, SOY., TATED
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Char Siu
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Char Siu (85/100 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 (1 flagged of 46 on 0293392105990).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (46 on 0293392105990).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Propyl Gallate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Char Siu's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 46-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Propyl Gallate. Open Propyl Gallate
- Compare Char Siu'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 0293392105990: 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.