Lobster mac & cheese bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0725439982740 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Lobster mac & cheese bites scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 71 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 71-component record, beginning with Lobster Meat, Lobster, Salt. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 71 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
39982740 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Lobster mac & cheese bites label screening desk
23 of 71 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 39982740 · 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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Lobster mac & cheese bites scores 2.9 points below that category average (90/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Lobster mac & cheese bites lists 71 ingredients on its label
71 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 283 products (4%)
- 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
How the 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 71 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Lobster meat (lobster, salt), whipping cream (cream, milk, carrageenan, mono - and diglycerides, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80), enriched macaroni (durum wheat, semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), part skim mozzarella cheese (part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, calcium chloride, enzyme), mascarpone cheese (milk, cream, maltodextrin, mono - and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, carob bean gum, skim milk powder, fructose, citric acid, salt, preservative - potassium sorbate, natural flavor, calcium chloride), cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, calcium chloride, enzymes, color - annatto), modified cornstarch, onion (with sauteed onion flavor), lemon juice from concentrate (water, concentrated lemon juice, preservative - sodium metabisulfite, lemon oil), garlic (in soybean oil, water, citric acid, preservative - potassium sorbate), seasoning (salt, celery seed, spices, mustard flour, paprika), red pepper flakes, xanthan gum, parsley. batter/breading: water, enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), enriched bleached wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), modified cornstarch, wheat starch, modified palm oil, salt, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), soy protein isolate, vinegar, sugar, dextrose, yeast, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin, spice and spice extractive. par-fried in high oleic canola oil.
Other products containing Natural Sauteed Onion Flavor
Natural Sauteed Onion Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Lobster mac & cheese bites's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 71-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Lobster mac & cheese bites'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 0725439982740: 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.