Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0858312002522 · Advancepierre Foods Inc. · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich by Advancepierre Foods Inc. scores 85/100 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 Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
12002522 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich label screening desk
17 of 52 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 12002522 · 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: Cheese & Pepperoni Pizza · Nearest score peer is Cheese & Pepperoni Pizza 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.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich scores 8.6 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich lists 52 ingredients on its label
52 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 85/100 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
Bread: enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, unsalted butter (pasteurized cream), nonfat dry milk, sugar, yeast (yeast, ascorbic acid), salt. mesquite smoked chicken breast (smoke flavoring added): chicken breast, water, vinegar, salt, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, natural flavors, mesquite smoke flavoring. pasteurized process cheddar cheese: cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), water, cream, sodium phosphates, salt, vegetable color (annatto and paprika extract blend), enzymes. buttermilk ranch dressing: soybean oil, water, buttermilk, vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, egg yolk, buttermilk solids, contains 2% or less of: salt, onion, monosodium glutamate, garlic, xanthan gum, lactic acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), phosphoric acid, propylene glycol, alginate, spice. parmesan cheese crumble: enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), unsalted butter (pasteurized cream), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim cow's milk, cultures, salt). fully cooked bacon (smoke flavoring added): bacon cured with: water, sugar, salt, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
Other products containing Annatto And Paprika Extract Blend
Annatto And Paprika Extract Blend is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 27 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich
Neighbours outside Advancepierre Foods Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Advancepierre Foods Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 52 on 0858312002522).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (52 on 0858312002522).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich'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 Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Better Bakery, Chicken & Bacon Club Sandwich'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 0858312002522: 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.