Caution

Kensington, Festive Pretzels

by Designpac Gifts Llc

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0731427145028 · Designpac Gifts Llc · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0731427145028 · Serving size 1 PRETZEL (28 g)

The verdict

Kensington, Festive Pretzels by Designpac Gifts Llc scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Pretzel, Wheat Flour, Corn Syrup. 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.

80/100
Caution safety score
2
Few flagged · of 56 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

48/100

Grade D

Ingredient Safety

80/100

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.

27145028 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Kensington, Festive Pretzels label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 80/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 56 ing. REG-SPARSE 9% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 3% LEAD-FLAG Titanium Dioxide PHOTO-FINISH Jambalaya Flavored With · ±0 BOOK-OFF …145028 · July 2026

5 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 27145028 · 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: Jambalaya Flavored With Sausage · Nearest score peer is Jambalaya Flavored With Sausage 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.

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.

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

1. Kensington, Festive Pretzels: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Kensington, Festive Pretz…80/1002. Jambalaya Flavored With Sausage: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Jambalaya Flavored With S…80/1003. Zatarain's, jambalaya chicken & sausage: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Zatarain's, jambalaya chi…80/1004. Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Zatarain's, creamy cajun …80/1005. Café Style Chef Salad: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Café Style Chef Salad80/100
High-band neighbours for Kensington, Festive Pretzels (80/100) outside Designpac Gifts Llc.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Kensington, Festive Pretzels
80/100
Jambalaya Flavored With Sausage
80/100
Zatarain's, jambalaya chicken & sausage
80/100
Zatarain's, creamy cajun style pasta
80/100
Café Style Chef Salad
80/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Kensington, Festive Pretzels scores 6.1 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Kensington, Festive Pretzels lists 56 ingredients on its label

56 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). Below this entry. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Snacks product, bucketed by value

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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 56 (97th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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 80/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Pretzel
2
Wheat Flour
3
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
4
Canola And Soybean Oil
5
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
6
Yeast
7
Vegetable Fiber And Soda
8
Milk Chocolate
9
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
10
Cocoa Butter
11
Chocolate Liquor
12
Milk
13
Whole Milk Powder
14
Soy Lecithin
15
Emulsifier
16
Vanilla
17
White Confection
18
Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil
19
Nonfat Milk
20
Whole Milk
21
Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oil
22
Glycerol-lacto Esters Of Fatty Acids
23
Vanilla
24
Milk Confection
25
Palm Kernel Oil
26
Cocoa Powder
27
Palm Oil
28
Organic Cocoa
29
Sorbitan Tristearate
30
Soy Lecithin And Vanilla
31
Snowflake Sprinkles
32
Rice Flour
33
Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
34
Cottonseed
35
Soybean
36
Corn Starch
37
Gum Arabic
38
Cellulose Gum
39
Titanium Dioxide
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TRACER
Avoid Prior Sanctioned
40
Color
41
Confectioner's Glaze
42
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
43
Artificial Flavor
44
Peppermint Candy
45
Natural Flavor
46
Artificial Color
47
Red No. 40
48
Green Confection
49
Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil
50
Whole Milk Solids
51
Reduced Mineral Whey Powder
52
Nonfat Dry Milk Solids
53
Yellow Lake No. 5
54
And Blue Lake No. 1
55
Red Confection
56
Artificial Flavor And Red Lake No. 40

Full Ingredient List

Pretzel (wheat flour, corn syrup, canola and soybean oil, salt, yeast, vegetable fiber and soda), milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate liquor, milk, whole milk powder, soy lecithin [an emulsifier] and vanilla), white confection (sugar, fractionated palm kernel oil, nonfat milk, whole milk, partially hydrogenated palm oil, glycerol-lacto esters of fatty acids [an emulsifier], soy lecithin, vanilla, salt), milk confection (sugar, palm kernel oil, nonfat milk, whole milk, cocoa powder, hydrogenated palm oil, cocoa [processed with alkali], sorbitan tristearate [an emulsifier], soy lecithin and natural vanilla), snowflake sprinkles (sugar, rice flour, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil [cottonseed and/or soybean], corn starch, gum arabic, cellulose gum, titanium dioxide [color], confectioner's glaze, carrageenan, soy lecithin, artificial flavor), peppermint candy (sugar, corn syrup, natural flavor, artificial color [red no. 40, titanium dioxide]), green confection (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, whole milk solids, reduced mineral whey powder [milk], nonfat dry milk solids, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavor, yellow lake no. 5, and blue lake no. 1), red confection (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, whole milk solids, reduced mineral whey powder [milk], nonfat dry milk solids, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavor and red lake no. 40).

Categories

Snacks

High-score cross-brand comparables for Kensington, Festive Pretzels

Neighbours outside Designpac Gifts Llc with screening scores in the same high band as Kensington, Festive Pretzels (80/100 here). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Designpac Gifts Llc; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Kensington, Festive Pretzels's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
  • Compare Kensington, Festive Pretzels'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 0731427145028: 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.