Mechado Style Tuna
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0748485100142 · General Tuna Corporation · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mechado Style Tuna by General Tuna Corporation scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 22 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 22-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Tuna Flakes, Potatoes. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 22 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
85100142 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mechado Style Tuna label screening desk
6 of 22 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Canthaxanthin). Source sheet 85100142 · 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: Tuna Flakes Adobo Style · Nearest score peer is Tuna Flakes Adobo Style 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.
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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 12,141 products we've scored in the Canned foods category, the average safety score is 98.5/100. Mechado Style Tuna scores 1.5 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 98.5/100), 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 Seafood products
Mechado Style Tuna lists 22 ingredients on its label
22 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 4,524 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 39 products (1%)
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- 1,326 products (29%)
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- 1,158 products (26%)
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- 327 products (7%)
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- 167 products (4%)
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- 156 products (3%)
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- 185 products (4%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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
Full Ingredient List
Water, tuna flakes, potatoes, tomato paste, green peas, sugar, soybean oil, carrots, vinegar, salt, thickeners (cornstarch, xanthan gum), seasonings (onion, garlic, black pepper, bay leaf), artificial flavors (beef, tuna) and canthaxanthin.
Other products containing Tuna Flakes
Tuna Flakes is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Mechado Style Tuna
Neighbours outside General Tuna Corporation with screening scores in the same high band as Mechado Style Tuna (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within General Tuna Corporation; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (22 on 0748485100142).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Mechado Style Tuna has a longer ingredient list than 86% of its Seafood category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Canthaxanthin first, then work through the remaining 22 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0748485100142: 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.