Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0860368002302 · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 76 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 76-component record, beginning with Beef, Water, Seasoned Breadcrumbs. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 76 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
68002302 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce label screening desk
17 of 76 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Rennet). Source sheet 68002302 · 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
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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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.
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. Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick 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
Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce lists 76 ingredients on its label
76 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
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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
Full Ingredient List
Meatball: beef, water, seasoned breadcrumbs [enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, partially hydrgenated vegetable oil (soybean, cottonseed, corn and/or canola), water, salt, contains 2% or less of yeast, honey, molasses, sugar, wheat gluten, whey, soy flour, oat bran, corn meal, rice flour, potato flour, butter, dough conditioners (mono - an - diglycerides, sodium and/or calcium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin, calcium carbonate), yeast nutrients (ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), distilled vinegar, skim milk, buttermilk, lactic acid, calcium propionate and potassium serbate (preservatives), sesame seeds, parsley, garlic, spices, parmesan and/or romano cheese (pasteurized cows milk and/or sheeps milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes)], pecorino romano cheese (pasteurized sheep's milk, cultures, rennet, salt), and/or grana padano cheese (cows milk, salt rennet, lysozyme from egg white), eggs, garlic, parsley, salt, black pepper, canola oil. marinara sauce: peeled tomatoes (peeled tomatoes, tomato puree, basil leaf, salt, acidity regulator: citric acid), water, onion, tomato paste, olive oil, garlic, salt, sugar, black pepper, basil,oregano
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Italian style meatballs in marinara sauce has a longer ingredient list than 100% of its Meats and their products category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Rennet first, then work through the remaining 76 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0860368002302: 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.