tamales chicken and 3 cheese
by Del Real
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0829793079839 · Del Real · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
tamales chicken and 3 cheese by Del Real scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 52 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 52-component record, beginning with Whole Cooked Corn, Corn Treated With Lime Water, Canola Oil. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 52 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
93079839 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
tamales chicken and 3 cheese label screening desk
6 of 52 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 93079839 · 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: Arroz Rice With Vegetables · Nearest score peer is Arroz Rice With Vegetables 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.
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 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. tamales chicken and 3 cheese scores 6.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 88.9/100), 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 Sandwiches products
tamales chicken and 3 cheese lists 52 ingredients on its label
52 61st percentile a longer ingredient list than 61% 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 52 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
MASA: [WHOLE COOKED CORN (CORN TREATED WITH LIME WATER), CANOLA OIL, RICE FLOUR, CHICKEN BOUILLON (SALT, SUGAR, CORN STARCH, CHICKEN FAT, DRIED CHICKEN POWDER, BEEF FAT, WATER, ONION POWDER, NATURAL CHICKEN FLAVOR, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, CARAMEL COLOR), SALT]. FILLING: [CHICKEN IN RED SAUCE (CHICKEN LEG MEAT, TOMATO, TOMATO SAUCE (TOMATO CONCENTRATE, SALT, CITRIC ACID, RED BELL PEPPER POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORING. SPICE, WATER, ONION, SEASONING (MALTODEXTRIN, TUNIC EXTRACT, SAUTEED ONION, SUGAR, SALT, YEAST EXTRACT (YEAST EXTRACT AND SALT), CORN OIL, CARROT EXTRACT, CELERY EXTRACT, SPICES, GARLIC POWDER, AND RED VINE), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CANOLA OIL, SALT EN PEPPERS (JALAPENO PEPPERS, WATER, VINEGAR. SAL GARLIC POWDER, SPICES), MOZZARELLA CHEESE STEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYME), MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, AND ANNATTO). CONTAINS MILK.
Other products containing Yeast Extract And Salt
Yeast Extract And Salt 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 tamales chicken and 3 cheese
Neighbours outside Del Real with screening scores in the same high band as tamales chicken and 3 cheese (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Del Real; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 52 on 0829793079839).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (52 on 0829793079839).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from tamales chicken and 3 cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 52-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare tamales chicken and 3 cheese's 1 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 0829793079839: 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.