Penne With Mratballd
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0738912022703 · Boston Market · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Penne With Mratballd by Boston Market scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 73 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 73-component record, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product, Water, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 73 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
65/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
12022703 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Penne With Mratballd label screening desk
20 of 73 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 12022703 · 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: Essential AMINO ENERGY Blue Raspberry · Nearest score peer is Essential AMINO ENERGY Blue Raspberry at the same screening score.
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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Penne With Mratballd scores 27.9 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Penne With Mratballd lists 73 ingredients on its label
73 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% 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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- 184 products (3%)
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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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 73 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (water, wheat flour, durum wheat semolina, durum flour, iron (ferrous sulfate), niacin, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, cooked meatballs (beef, water, textured soy flour, bread crumbs (wheat flour, egg whites), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes), dehydrated onions, natural flavors, roast beef base (roasted beef and beef stock), salt, hydrolyzed protein (soy, corn, wheat gluten), sugar, corn oil, autolyzed yeast extract, potassium chloride, caramel color, maltodextrin, natural flavors, corn syrup solids, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, isolated oat product, soy flour, corn syrup solids, salt, sodium phosphate), tomato paste, cooked Italian sausage (pork, seasoning salt, spices, corn syrup solids, monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, caramel color, extractives of paprika, BHA, BHT, citric acid, water, salt), low moisture whole milk mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes), half and half (milk, cream), grated cheese blend (parmesan and asiago cheeses, pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, natural flavor, powdered cellulose), Chablis wine, salt, onions, unsalted butter (cream, milk, natural flavors), olive oil, salt, modified food starch, garlic, canola oil, cellulose, spices, xanthan gum. Contains egg, milk, soy, wheat.
Other products containing Roast Beef Base
Roast Beef Base is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Penne With Mratballd
Neighbours outside Boston Market near Penne With Mratballd's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Boston Market; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 73 on 0738912022703).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (73 on 0738912022703).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Penne With Mratballd's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 73-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Penne With Mratballd's 3 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 0738912022703: 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.