CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES
by Trader Joe's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 00084505 · Trader Joe's. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES by Trader Joe's scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 17-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Corn Masa Flour, Trace Of Lime. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 17 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 00084505
- 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
67/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
00084505 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES label screening desk
2 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00084505 · 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: Breakfast essentials packets · Nearest score peer is Breakfast essentials packets 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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES lists 17 ingredients on its label
17 62nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 62% 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%)
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- 30,981 products (9%)
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- 31,618 products (9%)
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- 29,943 products (8%)
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- 28,403 products (8%)
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- 27,417 products (8%)
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- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
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- 10,830 products (3%)
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- 9,344 products (3%)
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- 7,955 products (2%)
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- 6,753 products (2%)
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- 5,918 products (2%)
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- 5,282 products (1%)
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- 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 17 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, Corn Masa Flour (Corn Masa Flour, Trace of Lime), Green Chiles, Monterey Jack Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Microbial Enzyme), Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil and/or Soybean Oil), Salt, Red Chile Puree (Water, Red Chile), Carrageenan, Paprika Oleoresin (for color)
Other products containing Red Chile Puree
Red Chile Puree is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 21 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Trader Joe's
High-score cross-brand comparables for CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 17 on 00084505).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (17 on 00084505).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 17-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare CHEESE & GREEN CHILE TAMALES's 1 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 00084505: 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.