Minis Original Beef Sticks
Open Food Facts label for barcode 85483248 · Country Archer Provisions · Meat-snack. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Minis Original Beef Sticks by Country Archer Provisions scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 19 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 19-component label is layered, beginning with Grass-fed Beef, Water, Sea salt. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 19 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- 85483248
- 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
80/100
Grade A-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
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.
85483248 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Minis Original Beef Sticks label screening desk
3 of 19 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Garlic). Source sheet 85483248 · 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: Honey Peanut Butter · Nearest score peer is Honey Peanut Butter 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 61 products we've scored in the Meat-snack category, the average safety score is 97.5/100. Minis Original Beef Sticks scores 2.5 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.5/100), 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 Meat-snack products
Minis Original Beef Sticks lists 19 ingredients on its label
19 81st percentile a longer ingredient list than 81% of the 58 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 34 and above
- 1 products (2%)
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 58 Meat-snack 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
Grass-Fed Beef, Water, Sea Salt,, Encapsulated Citric Acid, Cultured, Celery Powder (Celery Powder, Sea, Salt), Dehydrated Garlic, Red Pepper, Black Pepper, Cherry Powder,, Coriander, Onion Powder, White, Pepper, Ground Nutmeg, Parsley,, Colored Beef Collagen Casing.
Other products containing Colored Beef Collagen Casing
Colored Beef Collagen Casing is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 26 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Minis Original Beef Sticks
Neighbours outside Country Archer Provisions with screening scores in the same high band as Minis Original Beef Sticks (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Country Archer Provisions; 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).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (19 on 85483248).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Minis Original Beef Sticks has a longer ingredient list than 81% of its Meat-snack category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Garlic first, then work through the remaining 19 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 85483248: 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.