Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original
Open Food Facts label for barcode 18301348 · Sweet Baby Ray's · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original by Sweet Baby Ray's scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 16 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 16-component label is layered, beginning with High-fructose corn syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Tomato Paste Modified Corn Starch. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 16 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 18301348
- 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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
18301348 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original label screening desk
5 of 16 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 18301348 · 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: TRIPLE CHOCOLATE MUFFIN · Nearest score peer is TRIPLE CHOCOLATE MUFFIN 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.
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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original scores 3.3 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 98.3/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Condiments products
Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original lists 16 ingredients on its label
16 60th percentile a longer ingredient list than 60% of the 27,084 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 27,084 Condiments 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 16 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, tomato paste modified corn starch, contains less than 2% of salt, pineapple juice uncentrate, natural smoke flavor, spice, caramel color, molasses, sudi enzuate (preservative), garlic.* mustard flour, corn syrup, sugar, tamari natural flavor, celery seed. *dried. % daily autrition facts amount/serving % daily value amount/serving 7 total fat 0g 0% total carb. 18g fiber 0g about 14 servings per container serving size 2 thsp (36g) sat. fat 0g 0% trans fat 0g total sugars 17g 0% incl. 16g added sugars 32% cholesterol omg sodium 290mg 13% protein 0g calories 70 per serving 03 sweet baby ray's p.o. box 31250 chicago. il 60631 www.sweetbabyrays.com 1-877-729-2229 gluten free 13409 91810
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original
Neighbours outside Sweet Baby Ray's with screening scores in the same high band as Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Sweet Baby Ray's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 16 on 18301348).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (16 on 18301348).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 16-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Sweet Baby Ray's Award-winning Barbecue Sauce Original'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 18301348: 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.