Safe

Gourmet Cooked Meatballs

by Coborn's Four Brothers

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0733147111697 · Coborn's Four Brothers · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0733147111697 · Serving size 3 MEATBALLS (85 g)

The verdict

Gourmet Cooked Meatballs by Coborn's Four Brothers scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 11 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 11-component label led by Pork, Cooked Wild Rice, Water; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 11 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

63/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

47111697 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Gourmet Cooked Meatballs label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 11 ing. REG-SPARSE 27% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-LONG Len top 57% LEAD-FLAG Dextrose PHOTO-FINISH Deviled Egg Potato · ±0 BOOK-OFF …111697 · July 2026

3 of 11 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Dextrose). Source sheet 47111697 · 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: Deviled Egg Potato Salad · Nearest score peer is Deviled Egg Potato Salad 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.

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.

A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Gourmet Cooked Meatballs: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Gourmet Cooked Meatballs100/1002. Deviled Egg Potato Salad: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Deviled Egg Potato Salad100/1003. Deviled Egg Potato Salad: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Deviled Egg Potato Salad100/1004. Four Brothers, Gourmet Seasoning Salt: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Four Brothers, Gourmet Se…100/1005. Four Brothers, Porketta Seasoning: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Four Brothers, Porketta S…100/100
High-band neighbours for Gourmet Cooked Meatballs (100/100) outside Coborn's Four Brothers.
Chart values as text

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

Gourmet Cooked Meatballs
100/100
Deviled Egg Potato Salad
100/100
Deviled Egg Potato Salad
100/100
Four Brothers, Gourmet Seasoning Salt
100/100
Four Brothers, Porketta Seasoning
100/100

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. Gourmet Cooked Meatballs scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick 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

Gourmet Cooked Meatballs lists 11 ingredients on its label

11 43rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 43% of the 11,159 products we track

0–2: 79 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 430 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 612 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 1,397 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 1,485 products (13%). Below this entry. 10–12: 1,698 products (15%). This entry sits in this band. 12–14: 1,463 products (13%). Above this entry. 14–16: 996 products (9%). Above this entry. 16–18: 734 products (7%). Above this entry. 18–20: 489 products (4%). Above this entry. 20–22: 377 products (3%). Above this entry. 22–24: 277 products (2%). Above this entry. 24–26: 234 products (2%). Above this entry. 26–28: 140 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 145 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 92 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 83 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 66 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 74 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 50 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 238 products (2%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meats and their products 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

11,159 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 11 (43rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
79 products (1%)
2–4
430 products (4%)
4–6
612 products (5%)
6–8
1,397 products (13%)
8–10
1,485 products (13%)
10–12
1,698 products (15%)
12–14
1,463 products (13%)
14–16
996 products (9%)
16–18
734 products (7%)
18–20
489 products (4%)
20–22
377 products (3%)
22–24
277 products (2%)
24–26
234 products (2%)
26–28
140 products (1%)
28–30
145 products (1%)
30–32
92 products (1%)
32–34
83 products (1%)
34–36
66 products (1%)
36–38
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.

Full Ingredient List

Pork, cooked wild rice (water, wild rice, salt), seasoning (corn syrup solids, dextrose, salt, natural flavors, citric acid, propyl gallate bha), water, salt.

Categories

Meats and their products Frozen foods Meats Frozen meats

High-score cross-brand comparables for Gourmet Cooked Meatballs

Neighbours outside Coborn's Four Brothers with screening scores in the same high band as Gourmet Cooked Meatballs (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Coborn's Four Brothers; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Dextrose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Gourmet Cooked Meatballs's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 11-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Dextrose. Open Dextrose
  • Compare Gourmet Cooked Meatballs's 0 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 0733147111697: 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.