Crab cakes
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0712386124606 · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Crab cakes scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 89 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 89-component record, beginning with Crab Meat, Water, Mayonnaise. 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 89 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
86124606 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Crab cakes label screening desk
18 of 89 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 86124606 · 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.
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 5,679 products we've scored in the Seafood category, the average safety score is 99.2/100. Crab cakes scores 4.2 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 99.2/100), 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 Seafood products
Crab cakes lists 89 ingredients on its label
89 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 39 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,326 products (29%)
- 4–6
- 1,158 products (26%)
- 6–8
- 327 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 167 products (4%)
- 10–12
- 156 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 185 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 129 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 152 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 124 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 112 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (2%)
- 24–26
- 77 products (2%)
- 26–28
- 75 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 53 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 56 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 52 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 37 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 25 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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 89 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Crab meat, water, mayonnaise (vegetable, soy, or canola oil, egg yolk, vinegar, corn syrup, water, salt, spices, calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor)), wheat gluten, wheat starch, phosphate, antioxidant, cracker meal (enriched wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine, mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)), bread crumb (bleached wheat flour, yeast salt, sugar, soybean oil, dextrose, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate and sodium bicarbonate), whey colored with oleo resin, paprika and natural flavor), onions, eggs (whole eggs, citric acid), margarine (partially hydrogenated palm and palm kernel oil, soybean oil, water, salt, lecithin, monoglycerides, soy lecithin, potassium sorbate and citric acid (preservatives), beta carotene (color), vitamin a palmitate added), artificial flavor) contains 2% or less of the following: baked crab meat including natural crab juices, maltodextrin (from corn), modified potato starch, butter (cream, flavorings), corn oil, onion powder, worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses corn syrup, caramel color, anchovies, soy lecithin), baking powder (sapp) sodium bicarbonate, starch, mcp, calcium lactate), monosodium glutamate, spice extratives, silica gel, mustard, black pepper, celery salt (salt, celery seed), red pepper, bay (laurel) leaves, cloves, allspice (pimento), ginger, mace, cardamom, cinnamon, paprika, parsley.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Crab cakes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 89-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Crab cakes'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 0712386124606: 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.