Daily Chef
Open Food Facts brand roll-up for Daily Chef, current as of September 2026. Screening averages and flag shares live in the short-answer band below. This hero only situates the catalog slice.
The short answer
Daily Chef averages 93.3/100 across the 246 of 249 tracked products that carry an ingredient list, and 27.2% of those contain at least one separately flagged ingredient. The figure summarizes Open Food Facts labels cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI; it does not establish recall status, allergy suitability, or the composition of products outside this snapshot.
- 93.3/100
- average ingredient-screening score across 246 scored products
- 249
- tracked products in this brand roll-up
- 27.2%
- scored products with at least one flagged ingredient
- 57.9%
- of NOVA-classified products that are ultra-processed (Group 4)
Source snapshot current as of September 2026; open individual products before making a product-specific decision.
Portfolio reading
Use the distribution, then open the outliers
With 249 tracked products, the useful signal is the shape of the portfolio rather than one headline score. The current concern-sorted list begins Daily chef, hard candy, peppermint starlight mints; Red velvet cheesecake; Tiramisu; 27.2% of records contain at least one flagged ingredient while the overall mean is 93.3/100. Open those outliers first, then compare neighboring formulations. The aggregate does not establish recall status, allergen suitability, or the composition of an item outside this snapshot.
| Signal | Daily Chef | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Avg safety score | 93.3/100 | Above-average |
| Products tracked | 249 | OpenFoodFacts US index |
| Flagged ingredients | 27.2% | FDA SAFFA + CSPI flag overlap |
What the Data Says About Daily Chef
Daily Chef: 249 products tracked, 246 with an ingredient list, avg safety score 93.3/100, 27.2% of those scored products has at least one flagged ingredient.
27.2% of the scored Daily Chef products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient. That distribution is the primary finding; the average does not make those affected formulations "mostly safe." Scoring methodology + dye-pledge context →
Across the 894,137 products we index overall, the average safety score is 92.8/100, and Daily Chef sits 0.5 points above that fleet-wide average. Among the 804 brands with 50+ products (the typical brand in that group flags 18% of its catalog), Daily Chef's 27.2% flagged share is 9.2 points above that cohort median.
Processing mix (NOVA)
Daily Chef processing intensity
Daily Chef's NOVA-classified set is 214 products: 57.9% ultra-processed (Group 4, 124 items) with Group 4 (ultra-processed) largest at 124. That ultra-processed share sits 20.4 points below the 78.3% median for 1,323 brands with 50+ products. NOVA is processing intensity, not additive safety.
Shelf mix
Where Daily Chef shows up in Open Food Facts
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Daily Chef concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (54, 32% of this top-five); Snacks (41); Dairies (39); Meats and their products (26); Condiments (10).
Average score by leading shelf label
| Shelf | Scored n | Avg | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 54 | 98.1/100 | 7.4% |
| Snacks | 41 | 80.7/100 | 48.8% |
| Dairies | 39 | 97.7/100 | 12.8% |
| Meats and their products | 26 | 89.4/100 | 53.8% |
| Condiments | 10 | 92/100 | 30% |
Cohort context
Flagged-ingredient share among large brands
Daily Chef's 27.2% flagged share is measured across 246 scored products. The chart places that rate against the 50 brands with 50+ scored products in this snapshot, the same qualifying cohort used on the rankings page.
Daily Chef flagged share vs large-brand cohort
27.2% of scored products carry at least one flagged ingredient
27% 0th percentile is at or above the flagged share of 0% of the 50 qualifying brands we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more qualifying brands. 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%–10%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 10%–20%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 20%–30%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 30%–40%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 40%–50%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 50%–60%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 60%–70%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 70%–80%
- 3 qualifying brands (6%)
- 80%–90%
- 25 qualifying brands (50%)
- 90% and above
- 22 qualifying brands (44%)
Source Open Food Facts × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Portfolio shape
How scores cluster inside this brand
The brand average (93.3/100) summarizes 246 scored products. This distribution shows whether that mean sits on a tight cluster or a wide spread, a few low-scoring SKUs can matter even when the headline average looks strong.
Daily Chef product score distribution
Brand average 93.3/100 across 246 scored products
93 23rd percentile sits above 23% of the 246 scored products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored 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
- 0–10
- 2 scored products (1%)
- 20–30
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 30–40
- 5 scored products (2%)
- 40–50
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 50–60
- 5 scored products (2%)
- 60–70
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 70–80
- 7 scored products (3%)
- 80–90
- 26 scored products (11%)
- 90–100
- 19 scored products (8%)
- 100 and above
- 179 scored products (73%)
Source Open Food Facts product labels × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Sodium Nitrite is the flagged ingredient Daily Chef uses most
Across the 246 Daily Chef products scored here, Sodium Nitrite appears in 22. Only 1,491 other brands here use it (4.2%), which makes it a more particular choice than the flags that dominate the catalogue. A flag records that a named source raised a concern about an ingredient. It is not a finding that a product is unsafe to eat.
| Flagged ingredient | Daily Chef products | Why it is flagged |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 22 | Preservative with a recorded concern |
| Carrageenan | 15 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Caramel Coloring | 14 | Restricted: California (Prop 65 warning for 4-MEI) |
| Polysorbate 80 | 11 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Red 40 | 10 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Yellow 6 | 8 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Blue 1 | 6 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
Counts are products in this database whose ingredient list names the flagged ingredient. Flags come from FDA enforcement actions, CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings and US state ingredient laws; see the methodology for how each source is applied.
Visible product sample
Label complexity does not determine the screening result
Each point is one of the 50 concern-sorted Daily Chef records shown below. Horizontal position is the number of resolved ingredients on that product's stored label; vertical position is its source-derived screening score. The dashed medians (26 ingredients and 82.5/100) divide this displayed sample only. A longer label is not automatically worse: open a specific product to inspect its flagged rows and source coverage.
- Shown records
- 50
- Median label
- 26 ingredients
- Median score
- 82.5/100
The outlined point is Daily chef, hard candy, peppermint starlight mints, the displayed record with the most flagged ingredients (5). Bubble size represents flagged ingredient count plus one, so zero-flagged products remain visible. The score is derived from FDA SAFFA and CSPI fields; this chart does not establish recall status, dietary suitability, or a health outcome.
Read the plotted values
- Daily chef, hard candy, peppermint starlight mints: 9 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 5 flagged.
- Red velvet cheesecake: 63 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 5 flagged.
- Tiramisu: 65 resolved ingredients, 35/100, 5 flagged.
- Pound cake: 49 resolved ingredients, 30/100, 4 flagged.
- Daily chef, tea cakes, red velvet: 51 resolved ingredients, 25/100, 3 flagged.
- Daily chef, tropical fruit & nut blend: 50 resolved ingredients, 35/100, 3 flagged.
- Daily chef, sliced bagels, blueberry: 37 resolved ingredients, 35/100, 3 flagged.
- Daily chef, pumpkin tea cakes, pumpkin spice: 59 resolved ingredients, 35/100, 3 flagged.
- Lemon Crunch Bundt Cake: 69 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Hard Salami: 13 resolved ingredients, 55/100, 3 flagged.
- Peppered Bacon & Cheddar Pork Patties: 28 resolved ingredients, 55/100, 3 flagged.
- Neapolitan Ice Cream: 18 resolved ingredients, 65/100, 3 flagged.
- Chocolate Explosion Cake: 85 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 3 flagged.
- Italian Dressing: 16 resolved ingredients, 50/100, 2 flagged.
- Daily chef, whole kosher petite dill pickles: 10 resolved ingredients, 50/100, 2 flagged.
- Bundt cake: 57 resolved ingredients, 50/100, 2 flagged.
- Mini Bundt Cakes: 62 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Cheesecake Sampler: 71 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Sliced Turkey Pastrami: 15 resolved ingredients, 80/100, 2 flagged.
- Maple Flavored Bacon: 12 resolved ingredients, 80/100, 2 flagged.
- Naturally Hickory Smoked Maple Flavored Bacon: 12 resolved ingredients, 80/100, 2 flagged.
- Triple Layer Carrot Cake: 70 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Daily chef, cheesecake bar: 64 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Cheesecake: 62 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Heavy Whipping Cream: 5 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Daily chef food service, ice cream, vanilla: 14 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Daily chef, animal fruit snacks: 14 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Mustard: 24 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Cheesecake: 58 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Peanut Butter Brownies: 68 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Lemon Bundt Cake: 48 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Smoked Sausage Franks In A Blanket: 40 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Sweet Hawaiian Sandwich Buns: 39 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Pork Sausage: 31 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Sweet Hawaiian Dinner Rolls: 36 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Grilled chicken carbonara flatbread sticks: 62 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Restaurant style bacon: 5 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Restaurant Style Bacon: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Thinly Sliced Black Forest Ham: 8 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Daily chef, virginia brand smoked ham: 8 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Daily chef, thinly sliced honey ham: 11 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Daily chef, herb roasted & sliced turkey breast: 19 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Hickory Smoked & Sliced Turkey Breast: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Honey turkey breast: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Thinly Shaved Virginia Brand Smoked Ham: 9 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Double Smoked Hickory Bacon: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Daily chef, applewood bacon: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Daily chef, bundt cake, chocolate: 52 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Double Bacon, Hickory Smoked: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Thick Sliced Applewood Bacon: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
Products by Daily Chef
Showing 50 display-quality records, sorted by concern level (most flagged first); 199 tracked records with unusable upstream names remain in the aggregate but are not shown.
Nationwide brands with similar catalog profiles
Two PlainFoodSafe-derived peer sets for Daily Chef: closest on tracked product count (249 here) and closest on average ingredient screening score (93.3/100 here). Rows stay link-disjoint so each axis is a distinct neighborhood, not a largest-catalog strip.
Similar product count
Nearest other brands by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar average screening score
Nearest other brands by average ingredient screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Counts and averages from Open Food Facts labels screened against FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine; neither axis is a health outcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Daily Chef food safe? ▼
Daily Chef has an average safety score of 93/100 across the 246 of 249 tracked products that carry an ingredient list. 27.2% of those contain flagged ingredients.
How many Daily Chef products are tracked? ▼
Our database tracks 249 Daily Chef products. 246 include an ingredient list and can be screened against FDA SAFFA and CSPI data; 3 cannot be scored from this snapshot.
How processed is the Daily Chef catalog? ▼
Daily Chef has 214 NOVA-classified products; 57.9% are ultra-processed (Group 4, 124 items) and Group 4 is the largest slice. NOVA describes processing intensity, not whether additives on a label are flagged.
Which shelves dominate the Daily Chef catalog? ▼
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Daily Chef concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (54, 32% of this top-five); Snacks (41); Dairies (39); Meats and their products (26); Condiments (10).
Does Daily Chef use artificial dyes? ▼
Open the individual product pages below to see which Daily Chef items list a synthetic dye on their label. For whether the company has committed to removing dyes, the FDA and CSPI both publish corporate-commitment trackers; we no longer restate those commitments here.
What to do with this Daily Chef profile
Use this roll-up as orientation, then verify the specific package you hold against its ingredient panel and the named official sources.
- Start with Daily chef, hard candy, peppermint starlight mints, the displayed product with the most flagged ingredients (5) in this sample. Open the outlier product
- Sodium Nitrite appears in 22 scored Daily Chef products, review why each source flags it before treating the brand average as uniform. Review flagged ingredient counts
- Compare Daily Chef's 93.3/100 average and 27.2% flagged share against other brands before treating either figure as a recall or clearance signal. Brand safety rankings
- Cross-check any additive concern against FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine rather than relying on this derived index alone. Scoring methodology
A flagged ingredient records a source concern, not a recall, ban, or medical clearance. Always verify the current package label and consult official sources for product-specific decisions.
Citation & disclaimer notes
Brand scores aggregate ingredient-level FDA SAFFA + CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings across Open Food Facts product data. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Disclaimer: Informational purposes only; not professional advice. A flagged ingredient is not a recall or a ban. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Brand figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026.
