French Bread Pepperoni Pizza
by Lean Cuisine
Open Food Facts label for barcode 16348004 · Lean Cuisine · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
French Bread Pepperoni Pizza by Lean Cuisine scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 56-component record, beginning with Bread, Enriched Flour, Wheat 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 56 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 16348004
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
40/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
55/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
16348004 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
French Bread Pepperoni Pizza label screening desk
20 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 16348004 · 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: Jack'N Jill, Chips · Nearest score peer is Jack'N Jill, Chips at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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. French Bread Pepperoni Pizza scores 37.9 points below that category average (55/100 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 Meals products
French Bread Pepperoni Pizza lists 56 ingredients on its label
56 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
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- 209 products (2%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 315 products (3%)
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- 412 products (4%)
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- 477 products (4%)
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- 542 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
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- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 574 products (5%)
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- 517 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 451 products (4%)
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- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 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 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
BREAD (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, YELLOW CORNMEAL, 2% OR LESS OF YEAST, SUGAR, RICE FLOUR, WHEAT GLUTEN, SOYBEAN OIL, CULTURED WHEAT FLOUR, VINEGAR, ACETIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, FUMARIC ACID, SALT, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES), WATER, PEPPERONI (PORK, BEEF, SALT, SPICES, DEXTROSE, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, FLAVORINGS, SODIUM ASCORBATE, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID), TOMATO PASTE, REDUCED FAT MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PART SKIM MILK, NONFAT MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH*, SALT, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES, *INGREDIENT NOT IN REGULAR MOZZARELLA CHEESE), PARMESAN, ASIAGO AND ROMANO CHEESE BLEND (CULTURED PART-SKIM COW'S MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), 2% OR LESS OF MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, SALT, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), SPICE EXTRACTIVE
Other products containing 2% Or Less Of Maltodextrin
2% Or Less Of Maltodextrin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 18 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for French Bread Pepperoni Pizza
Neighbours outside Lean Cuisine near French Bread Pepperoni Pizza's mid-band score (55/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Lean Cuisine; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 56 on 16348004).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (56 on 16348004).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from French Bread Pepperoni Pizza's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare French Bread Pepperoni Pizza's 3 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 16348004: 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.