Crab Cakes
Crab Cakes by Rome Gourmet Seafoods has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Crab Cakes draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Crab Cakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
CRAB MEAT, MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, EGG YORK, VINEGAR, CORN SYRUP, WATER, SALT, SPICE), PANKO (UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NATURAL CANE SUGAR, YEAST, SEA SALT) SURIMI {WATER, FISH (POLLOCK), WHEAT STARCH, RICE WINE (WATER, SUGAR, ALCOHOL, RICE, SALT), SUGAR, EGG WHITE, SQUID SORBITOL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL CRAB FLAVOR, POTATO STARCH, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SOYBEAN OIL, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, OAT FIBER, CALCIUM CARBONATE, CARRAGEENAN, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, CARMINE, COLOR ADDED}, EGG WHITE, WHITE ONION, WHOLE GRAIN MUSTARD (MUSTARD SEED, VINEGAR, SALT, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM METABISULFITE, TUMERIC), SEASONING {CELERY SALT, SPICES (INCLUDING RED PEPPER AND BLACK PEPPER), PAPRIKA}, HOT SSAUCE (AGED CAYENNE RED PEPPERS, VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), SEASONING SALT (SALT, SUGAR, PAPRIKA, TURMERIC, ONION, CORN STARCH, GARLIC, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL FLAVOR PAPRIKA OLEORESIN)
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Crab Cakes: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Rome Gourmet Seafoods
- Barcode
- 0033477999966
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Crab Cakes rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Crab Cakes's 3.8/5 average puts it in the lower 84%, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Crab Cakes's 3.8/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.8/5 average places Crab Cakes in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.