5 crab cakes
by Aldi
Open Food Facts label for barcode 4099100027341 · Aldi · Seafood. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
5 crab cakes by Aldi scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 81 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 81-component record, beginning with Crab Meat, Callinectes Spp, Imitation Crab Meat Pollock. 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 81 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
80/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00027341 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
5 crab cakes label screening desk
18 of 81 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 00027341 · 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: Black Angus Bacon & Cheddar Cheese Beef Patties · Nearest score peer is Black Angus Bacon & Cheddar Cheese Beef Patties 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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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. 5 crab cakes 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 Seafood products
5 crab cakes lists 81 ingredients on its label
81 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
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- 39 products (1%)
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- 1,326 products (29%)
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- 1,158 products (26%)
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- 327 products (7%)
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- 167 products (4%)
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- 156 products (3%)
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- 185 products (4%)
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- 129 products (3%)
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- 124 products (3%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 74 products (2%)
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- 77 products (2%)
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- 75 products (2%)
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- 20 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 180 products (4%)
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 4,524 Seafood 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 81 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
crab meat (callinectes spp), imitation crab meat pollock (gadus chalcogrammus), and/or whiting (merluccius productus), water, wheat starch, potato starch, sugar, contains 2% or less of the following: snow crabmeat, tapioca starch, sorbitol, egg whites, salt, artificial crab flavors, potassium chloride, carrageenan, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, titanium dioxide (color), celery, bleached wheat flour, cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, guar and/or carob and/or xanthan gum), cooked pollock, onions, red and green bell peppers, water, wheat flour, yellow corn flour, modified food starch (corn), soybean oil, dried milk, distilled vinegar, molasses, sugar, garlic, salt, mustard seed, dextrose, leavening (sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium bicarbonate), garlic powder, hydrolyzed soy and corn proteins, guar gum, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, dried yeast, dehydrated vegetables (garlic, onion, parsley), yeast, sherry wine solids, maltodextrin, citric acid, red peppers and tabasco peppers, cloves, anchovies, natural flavor (contains soy, tamarind extract, chili pepper extract, turmèric, oleoresin paprika (color), spices, tricalcium phosphate (anticaking), contains: crustacean shellfish (crab), fish (pollock, wniting, anchovy), wheat, egg, milk, soy,
Other products containing Red Peppers And Tabasco Peppers
Red Peppers And Tabasco Peppers is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for 5 crab cakes
Neighbours outside Aldi with screening scores in the same high band as 5 crab cakes (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Aldi; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 81 on 4099100027341).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (81 on 4099100027341).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from 5 crab cakes's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 81-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare 5 crab cakes'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 4099100027341: 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.