Three Cheese Chicken
by Dining Smart
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0855229005080 · Dining Smart · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Three Cheese Chicken by Dining Smart scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 55 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 55-component record, beginning with Cooked Enriched Rotini Pasta, Water, Semolina Wheat. 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 55 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
29005080 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Three Cheese Chicken label screening desk
20 of 55 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 29005080 · 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: Tomato Clam Cocktail · Nearest score peer is Tomato Clam Cocktail 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Three Cheese Chicken scores 17.9 points below that category average (75/100 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 Frozen foods products
Three Cheese Chicken lists 55 ingredients on its label
55 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
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- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 55 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked enriched rotini pasta (water, semolina wheat, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), three cheese sauce (water, cheese blend [whey, cheddar, parmesan cheese, blue cheese {milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes}, maltodextrin, canola oil, salt, reduced lactose whey, disodium phosphate, lactic acid, color {yellow 5, yellow 6, annatto extract}, nonfat dry milk, citric acid], modified food starch, whey, coconut oil, salt, corn syrup solids, cheese flavor [natural flavors {maltodextrin, whey, cheddar cheese, salt, nonfat dry milk}, whey protein concentrate, maltodextrin, butter flavor {contains milk}, nonfat dry milk, salt, canola oil, modified food starch], contains less than 2% of the following: sodium caseinate, yeast extract, potassium phosphate, sodium phosphate, sugar, disodium inosinate, monoglycerides, diglycerides, citric acid, soy lecithin, silicon dioxide [anticaking]), roasted white meat chicken (white meat chicken, water, modified tapioca starch, sugar, dextrose, salt, sodium phosphate, modified potato starch), broccoli, carrots, corn.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Three Cheese Chicken
Neighbours outside Dining Smart near Three Cheese Chicken's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Dining Smart; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 55 on 0855229005080).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (55 on 0855229005080).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Three Cheese Chicken's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 55-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Three Cheese Chicken'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 0855229005080: 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.