Ham and cheese on wheat bread
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0738268000097 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ham and cheese on wheat bread scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 62 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 62-component record, beginning with Water, Dextrose, Or Less Of Food Starch Modified. 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.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 62 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
60/100
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.
68000097 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ham and cheese on wheat bread label screening desk
24 of 62 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Azodicarbonamide). Source sheet 68000097 · 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
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Ham and cheese on wheat bread scores 28.9 points below that category average (60/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
Ham and cheese on wheat bread lists 62 ingredients on its label
62 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 1,215 Sandwiches 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 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 62 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Black forest ham: cured with: water, dextrose, contains 2% or less of modified food starch, salt, potassium lactate, seasoning 9potassium chloride, pork stock, sugar, yeast extract, salt, lactic acid, fructose, sunflower oil, cysteine, hydrochloride, calcium lactate, modified food starch, flavors, grill flavor (from sunflower oil), polysorbate 80, rendered pork fat, and smoke flavor), sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, caramel color) 32% of weight is added ingredients caramel color added "smoke flavor added), wheat bread (enrinched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, ascorbic acid (vitamin c) added as a dough conditioner, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, crushed wheat, pumpernickel flour, rye flour, wheat bran, brown sugar, contains 2% or less of each of the following: soybean oil, yeast, salt, calcium sulfate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ethoxylated mono and diglycerides, enzymes, calcium carbonate, ammonium sulfate, ascorbic acid added as a dough conditioner, azodicarbonamide, monocalcium phosphate, soy lecithin), provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt and enzymes)
Other products containing Pumpernickel Flour
Pumpernickel Flour is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Azodicarbonamide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Ham and cheese on wheat bread's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 62-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Azodicarbonamide. Open Azodicarbonamide
- Compare Ham and cheese on wheat bread's 4 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 0738268000097: 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.