California Garden Veggie Burger
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0850020260829 · Actual Veggies · Meat alternatives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
California Garden Veggie Burger by Actual Veggies scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 20 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 20-component label is layered, beginning with Carrot, Organic White Quinoa, Parsnip. 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 20 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
78/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
20260829 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
California Garden Veggie Burger label screening desk
None of the 20 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 20260829 · 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: Blue corn tortilla chips · Nearest score peer is Blue corn tortilla chips 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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 611 products we've scored in the Meat alternatives category, the average safety score is 98.7/100. California Garden Veggie Burger scores 1.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 98.7/100), 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 Meat alternatives products
California Garden Veggie Burger lists 20 ingredients on its label
20 47th percentile a longer ingredient list than 47% of the 141 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 17 products (12%)
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 141 Meat alternatives 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
Carrot, white quinoa, parsnip, yellow onion, oat, sweet potato, pea protein, spinach, zucchini, corn, avocado oil, apple cider vinegar, ovata seed (psyllium), spice blend (kosher salt, garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, black pepper)
Other products containing Ovata Seed
Ovata Seed is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 9 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for California Garden Veggie Burger
Neighbours outside Actual Veggies with screening scores in the same high band as California Garden Veggie Burger (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Actual Veggies; 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).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (20 on 0850020260829).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
0 of 20 parsed ingredients on California Garden Veggie Burger match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
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Barcode 0850020260829: 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.