Beef Short Rib Lasagna
by Giovanni Roma Rana
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0877448009250 · Giovanni Roma Rana · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Beef Short Rib Lasagna by Giovanni Roma Rana scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 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 50-component record, beginning with Beef, Organic Tomato Puree, Tomatoes. 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 50 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
48009250 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Beef Short Rib Lasagna label screening desk
7 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Rice Starch). Source sheet 48009250 · 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: Maine Lobster · Nearest score peer is Maine Lobster 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.
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. Beef Short Rib Lasagna scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Beef Short Rib Lasagna lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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
Full Ingredient List
meat sauce: beef, tomato puree (tomatoes), water, tomato paste (tomatoes), onions, carrots, 2% or less of red wine, beef stock base (yeast extract, beef stock, salt, water, natural flavor, organic potato starch, lactic acid, carrot puree, onion powder, celery juice concentrate), natural flavors, garlic, salt, spices, modified food starch, cheese sauce: ricotta cheese (whey, milk, cream, vinegar), heavy cream (cream, milk), milk, mozzarella cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), parmesan cheese (pasteurized cultured part-skim milk, salt, enzymes), 2% or less of whey, salt, natural flavors, garlic, spices, black pepper, vegetable fiber and starch (pea, potato, corn), corn starch and potato fiber, tomato sauce: tomato puree (tomatoes), water, onions, 2% or less of garlic, salt, natural flavors, modified food starch, spices, black pepper, pasta: durum wheat flour, eggs, water, cooked seasoned shredded beef short rib: beef, water, salt, rice starch, vinegar, yeast extract, sodium bicarbonate, mozzarella cheese: pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, contains eggs, milk, wheat, keep refrigerated, use or freeze by date on side of package, may be frozen 12 months,
Categories
High-score cross-brand comparables for Beef Short Rib Lasagna
Neighbours outside Giovanni Roma Rana with screening scores in the same high band as Beef Short Rib Lasagna (100/100 here). No other Giovanni Roma Rana products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0877448009250).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Beef Short Rib Lasagna has a longer ingredient list than 84% of its Meals category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Rice Starch first, then work through the remaining 50 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0877448009250: 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.