Chicken Tagine
Open Food Facts label for barcode 29494507 · Marks & Spencers · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Tagine by Marks & Spencers scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 5 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 5-component label led by Cooked Chicken Thighs Tomatoes - Cooked Brown Basmati Rice, Water - Brown Rice, Carlic Purée Butternut Squash - Carrots - Chicken Stock; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 5 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- A
- 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
85/100
Grade A
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
Processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
29494507 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Tagine label screening desk
None of the 5 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 29494507 · 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: Berry Bliss Bowl · Nearest score peer is Berry Bliss Bowl 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.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
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. Chicken Tagine 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
Chicken Tagine lists 5 ingredients on its label
5 1st percentile a longer ingredient list than 1% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Cooked Chicken Thighs (27%) Tomatoes (18%) - Cooked Brown Basmati Rice (8%) (Water - Brown Rice) - Red Onions ers (7%) Bulgur Wheat (6%) - Red Peppers (5%) • Onions - Sultanas - Dark Speckled Lentils - Chickpeas - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Apricot Purée - Ground Spices (Smoked Paprika - Turmeric Cinnamon - Cumin - Coriander Fennel Seeds Black Pepper White Pepper - Cayenne Pepper) - Carlic Purée Butternut Squash - Carrots - Chicken Stock (Water - Chicken Bones) Dry White Wine Parsley - d e Ginger Purée - Lemon Peel Whole Milk Salt Honey - Cornflour - Mint Red Chillies Tomato Paste - Lemon Juice - Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed Oil) Lemon Zest Dried Oregano - Rosemary Thyme Dried Chillies Cracked 90g Black Pepper.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Tagine
Neighbours outside Marks & Spencers with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Tagine (100/100 here). The 2 same-brand links above stay within Marks & Spencers; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (5 on 29494507).
Check the compact label closely
Check the compact label closely
Chicken Tagine has a shorter ingredient list than 99% of its Meals category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.
- Start with the parsed ingredient profiles and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
- Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
- Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 29494507: 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.