Luncheon meat
by Brookdale
Open Food Facts label for barcode 4099100077162 · Brookdale · Canned foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Luncheon meat by Brookdale scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 5 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 5-component label led by Pork, Salt, Water; 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 5 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- E
- 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
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
Processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
00077162 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Luncheon meat label screening desk
3 of 5 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 00077162 · 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: CHEDDAR BRATS · Nearest score peer is CHEDDAR BRATS 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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Luncheon meat scores 7.4 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Canned foods products
Luncheon meat lists 5 ingredients on its label
5 4th percentile a longer ingredient list than 4% of the 2,784 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 58 products (2%)
- 4–6
- 123 products (4%)
- 6–8
- 148 products (5%)
- 8–10
- 226 products (8%)
- 10–12
- 301 products (11%)
- 12–14
- 233 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 246 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 182 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 165 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 133 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 133 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 123 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 116 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 124 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 78 products (3%)
- 32–34
- 95 products (3%)
- 34–36
- 65 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 49 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 61 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 123 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 2,784 Canned 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 5 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PORK, SALT, WATER, SUGAR, SODIUM NITRITE.
Categories
More from Brookdale
High-score cross-brand comparables for Luncheon meat
Neighbours outside Brookdale with screening scores in the same high band as Luncheon meat (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Brookdale; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 5 on 4099100077162).
Short-label peers (≤8 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (5 on 4099100077162).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Luncheon meat's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 5-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Luncheon meat'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 4099100077162: 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.