A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0888670026342 · Wellsley Farms · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese by Wellsley Farms scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 65 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 65-component record, beginning with Cooked Pasta, Water, Enriched Semolina. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 65 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
80/100
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.
70026342 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese label screening desk
19 of 65 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 70026342 · 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: American Valu, Oven Roasted Turkey Breast · Nearest score peer is American Valu, Oven Roasted Turkey Breast 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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese scores 12.9 points below that category average (80/100 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
A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese lists 65 ingredients on its label
65 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% 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
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 319 products (5%)
- 36–38
- 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 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 65 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked pasta (water, enriched semolina (durum wheat semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), bread (wheat flour, sugar, yeast, sea salt), american cheese (cultured pasteurized milk and skim milk, buttermilk, milkfat, salt, milk protein concentrate, acetic acid, lactic acid, enzymes), bacon (water, salt sodium phosphates, brown sugar, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), low moisture part-skim mozzarella (pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes ), provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), romano cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), milk with vitamin c & d added, tempura flour (bleached wheat flour, rice flour, corn starch, and leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate]), water, egg (egg, citric acid, water), modified food starch, 2% or less of cream, parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), asiago cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), white wine (wine, salt), sea salt, butter (pasteurized cream, salt), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), corn meal, onion, rice starch, whey protein, garlic, tapioca starch, carrageenan, spices. breading set in canola oil.
Other products containing Salt Sodium Phosphates
Salt Sodium Phosphates is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese
Neighbours outside Wellsley Farms with screening scores in the same high band as A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Wellsley Farms; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 65 on 0888670026342).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (65 on 0888670026342).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 65-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare A crunchy coating filled with smoky bacon and a creamy blend of six cheeses bites, bacon mac & cheese's 2 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 0888670026342: 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.