Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce
by Ahold
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0688267159916 · Ahold · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce by Ahold scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 49 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 49-component record, beginning with Cheese, Mozzarella And Pepper Jack Cheese, Pasteurized Milk. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 49 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
67159916 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce label screening desk
13 of 49 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Cellulose). Source sheet 67159916 · 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: Carne asada marinade and basting sauce · Nearest score peer is Carne asada marinade and basting sauce 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.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce lists 49 ingredients on its label
49 77th percentile a longer ingredient list than 77% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Cheese stick: cheese (mozzarella and pepper jack cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, peppers, enzymes], red pepper flakes, water, modified cellulose), bleached wheat flour, water, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola oil), yellow corn flour, wheat flour, beer, modified cornstarch, salt, unbleached enriched wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), dried whey, sugar, yeast extract, dried onion and garlic, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), dextrose, sodium alginate, paprika extract, spice extract, vinegar powder, yeast, oleoresin paprika, extractives of annatto and paprika, caramel color. marinara sauce: water, tomato paste, distilled vinegar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, salt, spices, onion powder, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (preservatives), garlic powder, natural flavor.
Other products containing Extractives Of Annatto And Paprika
Extractives Of Annatto And Paprika is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 26 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce
Neighbours outside Ahold with screening scores in the same high band as Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ahold; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (49 on 0688267159916).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Breaded Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks With Marinara Sauce has a longer ingredient list than 77% of its Frozen foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Cellulose first, then work through the remaining 49 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0688267159916: 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.