Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes
by Meijer
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0713733218849 · Meijer · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes by Meijer scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Idaho Potatoes, Whey, From Milk. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 26 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
33218849 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes label screening desk
6 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 33218849 · 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: Liquid Water Enhancer, Fruit Punch · Nearest score peer is Liquid Water Enhancer, Fruit Punch at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes scores 43.6 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes lists 26 ingredients on its label
26 42nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 42% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 26 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Idaho potatoes*, whey (from milk), salt, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cheddar, blue, romano and monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), corn syrup solids maltodextrin (from corn), monosodium glutamate, buttermilk powder, disodium phosphate, natural flavor, sodium caseinate (from milk), mono - and diglycerides, nonfat dry milk, reduced lactose whey (from milk), citric acid, yellow 5, yellow 6, (freshness preserved with sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite and citric acid).
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes
Neighbours outside Meijer near Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Meijer; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 26 on 0713733218849).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (26 on 0713733218849).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Meijer, four cheese mashed potatoes's 2 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 0713733218849: 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.