Punjabi Choley
Open Food Facts label for barcode 8904063225795 · Haldiram's Minute Khana · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Punjabi Choley by Haldiram's Minute Khana scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Chickpea, Tomatoes, Organic Onions. 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 24 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- 8904063225795
- 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.
63225795 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Punjabi Choley label screening desk
2 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Garlic). Source sheet 63225795 · 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: Chips Sour Cream & Onion · Nearest score peer is Chips Sour Cream & Onion 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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Punjabi Choley scores 1.7 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 98.3/100), 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 Condiments products
Punjabi Choley lists 24 ingredients on its label
24 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 27,084 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 27,084 Condiments 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
Minute Khana STYLE CHOLEY SPECIAL • PUNJAB! CHOLEY WHOLE CHICKPEAS WITH GREEN CHILLIES AND AROMATIC SPICES COOKED IN A TANGY Nutrition F 2 Servings per pack Serving size ents Water, Chickpea(18%), Tomatoes, Onions, Refined Vegetable Oil (Cotton Seed), Fresh Ginger, Garlic, Green Chilli, Spices(Cardamom, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cumin Seeds, Carom Seeds, Coriander, sl, Salt, Yogurt (Milk), Coriander Leaves, Red Chilli Powder, Turmeric Powder, Dried Fenugreek and Bay Leaves. CONTAINS MILK Sodium 930mg Total Carbohydrate Dietary Fiber 2g Total Sugars Og Includes O
Other products containing Sl
Sl is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Punjabi Choley
Neighbours outside Haldiram's Minute Khana with screening scores in the same high band as Punjabi Choley (100/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Haldiram's Minute Khana; 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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (24 on 8904063225795).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Punjabi Choley has a longer ingredient list than 87% of its Condiments category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Garlic first, then work through the remaining 24 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 8904063225795: 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.