Italian-style sandwich
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0492860300626 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian-style sandwich scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 65 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 65-component record, beginning with White Sub Bread, Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 65 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
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.
60300626 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian-style sandwich label screening desk
24 of 65 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Azodicarbonamide). Source sheet 60300626 · 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
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Italian-style sandwich scores 48.9 points below that category average (40/100 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
Italian-style sandwich lists 65 ingredients on its label
65 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 1 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 3 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 4 products (0%)
- 6–8
- 3 products (0%)
- 8–10
- 6 products (0%)
- 10–12
- 4 products (0%)
- 12–14
- 11 products (1%)
- 14–16
- 12 products (1%)
- 16–18
- 22 products (2%)
- 18–20
- 18 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 17 products (1%)
- 22–24
- 15 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 16 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 21 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 32 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 28 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 44 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 26 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 56 products (5%)
- 38–40
- 44 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 832 products (68%)
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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 65 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
White sub bread (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, sugar, yeast, wheat gluten, salt, malted barley extract, calcium propionate [preservatives], dough conditioners [diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ascorbic acid, enzymes, l-cysteine, azodicarbonamide], malted barley flour), giardiniera spread (water, green bell pepper, onion, red bell pepper, carrot, celery, distilled vinegar, modified corn starch, yellow bell pepper, jalapeno pepper, soybean oil, extra virgin olive oil, salt, garlic, spices, black pepper, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate), pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, dextrose, spices, lactic acid, paprika, garlic, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid), salami (pork, beef, salt, dextrose, spices, lactic acid, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite, garlic, bha, bht, citric acid), ham with natural juices (ham cured with water, contains 2% or less of sugar, salt, potassium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, sodium phosphate), provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt and enzymes), green leaf lettuce.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Azodicarbonamide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian-style sandwich's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 65-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Azodicarbonamide. Open Azodicarbonamide
- Compare Italian-style sandwich's 4 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 0492860300626: 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.