Bbq Sauce
by Hank's Smoked Briskets
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0833819003937 · Hank's Smoked Briskets · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Bbq Sauce by Hank's Smoked Briskets scores 5/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 46 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 46-component record, beginning with Bbq Sauce, High-fructose corn syrup, Water. 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.
- 5/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 46 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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
10/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
5/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
19003937 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Bbq Sauce label screening desk
11 of 46 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 19003937 · 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: Blob candies · Nearest score peer is Blob candies 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Bbq Sauce scores 93.3 points below that category average (5/100 vs. 98.3/100), 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 Condiments products
Bbq Sauce lists 46 ingredients on its label
46 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 27,084 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 186 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,031 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 1,392 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 2,093 products (8%)
- 8–10
- 2,811 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 3,070 products (11%)
- 12–14
- 2,818 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 2,724 products (10%)
- 16–18
- 2,451 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 2,045 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 1,563 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 1,244 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 934 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 694 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 551 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 420 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 246 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 196 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 135 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 134 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 346 products (1%)
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 27,084 Condiments 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 5/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 46 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Bbq sauce (high fructose corn syrup, water, distilled vinegar, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), salt, modified food starch, contains less than 2% of: soybean oil, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, spice, onion powder, dehydrated garlic, natural and artificial tomato flavor, colored with (yellow 6, red 40, blue 1, titanium dioxide), caramel color), bbq sauce (high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, tomato paste, modified food starch, contains less than 2% of: salt, pineapple juice, natural smoke flavor, spices, caramel color, sodium benzoate as a preservative, molasses, corn syrup, dried garlic, sugar, tamarind, natural flavor), brown sugar, water, ketchup (tomato concentrate (water, tomato paste), high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, vinegar, salt, onion powder, spice, natural flavors), lemon juice (water, lemon juice concentrate), worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, sugar, spices, anchovy puree, natural flavor (contains soy), tamarind), mustard (vinegar, #1 mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, and spices), garlic powder.
Other products containing Anchovy Puree
Anchovy Puree is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 68 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Bbq Sauce
Neighbours outside Hank's Smoked Briskets in the same lower screening band as Bbq Sauce (5/100). No other Hank's Smoked Briskets products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 46 on 0833819003937).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (46 on 0833819003937).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Bbq Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 46-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
- Compare Bbq Sauce's 5 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 0833819003937: 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.