Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style
by Be the hive
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0728028481280 · Be the hive · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style by Be the hive scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 38 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 38-component record, beginning with Ground Seitan, Vital Wheat Gluten, 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 38 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0728028481280
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
28481280 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style label screening desk
8 of 38 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 28481280 · 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: Baker's Golden Dairy - S'mores Milk · Nearest score peer is Baker's Golden Dairy - S'mores Milk at the same screening score.
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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style scores 2.6 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style lists 38 ingredients on its label
38 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 11,159 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
- 79 products (1%)
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- 430 products (4%)
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- 612 products (5%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 1,485 products (13%)
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- 1,698 products (15%)
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- 1,463 products (13%)
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- 996 products (9%)
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- 734 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 489 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 377 products (3%)
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- 277 products (2%)
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- 140 products (1%)
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- 74 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 50 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 238 products (2%)
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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 38 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Ground Seitan (Vital Wheat Gluten, Water, Soy Sauce (Water, Wheat, Soybeans, Salt), Nutritional Yeast, Garlic Granules, Spices), Cooked Quinoa, Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Nutritional Yeast (Dry Yeast, Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12), Soybean Oil, Water, Corn Starch, Onion Powder, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Wheat, Salt), Garlic Powder, Salt, Balsamic Vinegar (Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Grape Must, Caramel Color), Liquid Aminos (Vegetable Protein From Non-Gmo Soybeans And Purified Water,) Cumin, Sage, Black Pepper, Celery Salt, Cayenne.
Other products containing Vegetable Protein From Non-gmo Soybeans And Purified Water
Vegetable Protein From Non-gmo Soybeans And Purified Water is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style
Neighbours outside Be the hive with screening scores in the same high band as Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style (95/100 here). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Be the hive; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 38 on 0728028481280).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (38 on 0728028481280).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 38-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Classic Southern Style Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage, Classic Southern Style'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 0728028481280: 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.