Italian Sub Sandwich
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0708820379428 · Crafted Market by Meijer · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian Sub Sandwich by Crafted Market by Meijer scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 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 41-component record, beginning with White Sub Bun, Enriched Wheat Flour, 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.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 41 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
28/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
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.
20379428 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian Sub Sandwich label screening desk
12 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 20379428 · 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: Meijer, light nonfat yogurt, strawberry cheesecake · Nearest score peer is Meijer, light nonfat yogurt, strawberry cheesecake 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 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.
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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Italian Sub 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 Sub Sandwich lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 34th percentile a longer ingredient list than 34% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
WHITE SUB BUN (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, PALM OIL, SUGAR, SALT, DOUGH CONDITIONERS, DOUGH ENZYME, MONOGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SILICON DIOXIDE, SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN), HONEY HAM AND WATER PRODUCT (WATER, HONEY, SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, VINEGAR, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE), SALAMI (PORK, BEEF, SALT, WATER, DEXTROSE, SPICES, SMOKE FLAVORING, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM NITRITE, BHT, TBHQ, CITRIC ACID), PEPPERONI (PORK, BEEF, SALT, WATER, DEXTROSE, SPICES, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID), PROVOLONE CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES).
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Italian Sub Sandwich
Neighbours outside Crafted Market by Meijer in the same lower screening band as Italian Sub Sandwich (40/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Crafted Market by Meijer; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 41 on 0708820379428).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0708820379428).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian Sub Sandwich's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Italian Sub 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 0708820379428: 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.