Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese
by Aldi
Open Food Facts label for barcode 4099100166620 · Aldi. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese by Aldi scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 21 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 21-component label is layered, beginning with Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Pepperoni. 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 21 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 4099100166620
- 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.
00166620 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese label screening desk
6 of 21 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 00166620 · 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: Thick Sliced Pepperoni · Nearest score peer is Thick Sliced Pepperoni 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese lists 21 ingredients on its label
21 73rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 73% of the 359,392 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
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
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 21 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
pasteurized milk, salt, pepperoni (bha, bht with citric acid added to help protect flavor ingredients: pork and beef, salt, contains 2% or less of water, dextrose, spices, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid), garlic salt (garlic powder, salt), tomato powder, italian seasoning (spices), cheese culture, microbial enzymes, and cayenne contains: milk,
Other products containing Italian Seasoning
Italian Seasoning is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 117 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Aldi
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese
Neighbours outside Aldi near Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese's mid-band score (55/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Aldi; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 21 on 4099100166620).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (21 on 4099100166620).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 21-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Pepperoni Marinara semi-soft cheese'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 4099100166620: 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.