Vegetable And Grain Protein Links
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0845561000614 · Atlantic Natural Foods Llc · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Vegetable And Grain Protein Links by Atlantic Natural Foods Llc scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with Textured Vegetable Protein, Wheat Gluten, Soy Protein Concentrate. 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 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
61000614 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Vegetable And Grain Protein Links label screening desk
9 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 61000614 · 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: Choplets · Nearest score peer is Choplets 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Vegetable And Grain Protein Links scores 2.6 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Vegetable And Grain Protein Links lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,159 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
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- 79 products (1%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 489 products (4%)
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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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Textured vegetable protein (wheat gluten, soy protein concentrate, water for hydration), corn oil, water, torula yeast. contains 2% or less of mono - and diglycerides from soybean oil, defatted soy flour, soy lecithin, hydrolyzed soy protein, l-lysine monohydrochloride, hydrolyzed corn protein, onion powder, caramel color, natural smoke flavor, garlic powder, corn syrup, propylene glycol, vitamins (niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin b1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin b6 [pyfidoxine hydrochloride], vitamin b2 [riboflavin], vitamin b12 [cyanocobalamin]), red #3 for color, yellow #6 for color. brine: water, salt.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Vegetable And Grain Protein Links
Neighbours outside Atlantic Natural Foods Llc with screening scores in the same high band as Vegetable And Grain Protein Links (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Atlantic Natural Foods Llc; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 32 on 0845561000614).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0845561000614).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Vegetable And Grain Protein Links's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Vegetable And Grain Protein Links'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 0845561000614: 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.