Selects, steak strips
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0658276202972 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Selects, steak strips scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 78 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 78-component record, beginning with Mashed Potatoes, Water, Potato Flakes. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 78 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
65/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
76202972 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Selects, steak strips label screening desk
18 of 78 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 76202972 · 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
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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Selects, steak strips scores 2.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Frozen foods products
Selects, steak strips lists 78 ingredients on its label
78 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% 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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- 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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- 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 78 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Mashed potatoes (water, dehydrated potato flakes (potatoes, mono and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid), seasoning sauce (vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil [tbhq and citric acid to preserve freshness]), water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color (corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol)), contains 2% or less of (salt, dried dairy blend (whey, calcium caseinate))), cooked seasoned braised beef steak and binder product (beef, beef broth, modified food starch, salt, dextrose, sodium phosphate, seasoning [maltodextrin, natural flavor, beef extract, salt, beef tallow, modified corn starch, yeast extract], caramel color, seasoning [tapioca dextrin, salt, grill flavor (from sunflower oil), natural smoke flavor], spice extractives), apple dessert (water, sugar, rehydrated apples, modified food starch, dehydrated apple flakes (calcium stearate), natural and artificial flavor [water, propylene glycol, ethanol, natural and artificial flavor, caramel color, vanilla extractives], spices, citric acid, salt, dried egg yolks), corn, red wine and onion steak sauce (water, onions, red cooking wine [wine, salt, metabisulfite as a preservative], beef gravy mix (food starch - modified, salt, hydrolyzed corn gluten, dextrose, enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], yeast extract, hydrolyzed soy protein, corn syrup solids, onion powder, caramel color, silicon dioxide [anti-caking agent], dried beef stock, hydrolyzed wheat gluten, flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, citric acid, natural flavors), modified corn starch), green beans, seasoning sauce (water, sugar, seasoning sauce (vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil [tbhq and citric acid to preserve freshness]), water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color (corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol)), salt, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil [tbhq and citric acid to preserve freshness])).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Selects, steak strips's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 78-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Selects, steak strips'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 0658276202972: 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.