Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs
by May's Hawaii
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0812916003132 · May's Hawaii · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs by May's Hawaii scores 45/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Chicken Thighs, Char Siu Seasoning, Sugar. 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.
- 45/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 24 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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
45/100
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.
16003132 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs label screening desk
10 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 3). Source sheet 16003132 · 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: Very Cherry Sugar Free Gum, Very Cherry · Nearest score peer is Very Cherry Sugar Free Gum, Very Cherry 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs scores 47.9 points below that category average (45/100 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 Meats and their products products
Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs lists 24 ingredients on its label
24 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% of the 11,159 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 79 products (1%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 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.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 45/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 24 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Chicken thighs, char siu seasoning [sugar, fructose, maltodextrin, salt, soy sauce (wheat, soybeans, salt, vinegar, lactic acid), spices, yeast extract, honey solids, garlic powder, caramel color, sodium diacetate, natural flavor, high fructose corn syrup, sesame oil, red 40 lake, red 3, not more than 2% silicone dioxide to prevent caking], water.
Other products containing Chicken Thighs
Chicken Thighs is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 30 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs
Neighbours outside May's Hawaii in the same lower screening band as Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs (45/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within May's Hawaii; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 24 on 0812916003132).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (24 on 0812916003132).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 3 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 24-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 3. Open Red 3
- Compare Char siu chicken hawaiian style thighs'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 0812916003132: 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.