Cheese Sticks
by Meijer
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0719283140210 · Meijer · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cheese Sticks by Meijer scores 25/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 41-component record, beginning with Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese, Pasteurized Organic Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures. 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.
- 25/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 41 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
25/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
25/100
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.
83140210 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cheese Sticks label screening desk
13 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Source sheet 83140210 · 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: Cheddar cheese balls corn snack, cheese · Nearest score peer is Cheddar cheese balls corn snack, cheese 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.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Cheese Sticks scores 72.8 points below that category average (25/100 vs. 97.8/100), 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 Dairies products
Cheese Sticks lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 21,438 products 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
- 120 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,805 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 4,714 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 2,694 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,996 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 1,884 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 1,734 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 1,639 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 1,261 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 841 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 481 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 303 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 228 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 151 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 122 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 115 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 81 products (0%)
- 34–36
- 57 products (0%)
- 36–38
- 45 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 33 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 134 products (1%)
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 21,438 Dairies 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 25/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzyme), water, bleached wheat flour, wheat flour, soybean oil, enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), contains 2% or less of each of the following: blue 1, dextrose, iodized salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), methylcellulose, milk protein concentrate, modified cornstarch, mono and diglycerides, natural flavor, nonfat dry milk fortified with vitamin a and d, paprika extract (color), powdered eggs, red 40, salt, sodium alginate, soy flour, spice extractives, spices, sugar, wheat starch, whey powder, yellow 5, yellow corn flour.
Categories
More from Meijer
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Cheese Sticks
Neighbours outside Meijer in the same lower screening band as Cheese Sticks (25/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Meijer; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 41 on 0719283140210).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0719283140210).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 1 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cheese Sticks'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 Blue 1. Open Blue 1
- Compare Cheese Sticks's 3 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 0719283140210: 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.