Safe

Tabasco® brand spicy salt

by Tabasco

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0011210008199 · Tabasco · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0011210008199 · Serving size 1/4 tsp (1.4 g)

The verdict

Tabasco® brand spicy salt by Tabasco scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 4 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. Its short parsed label begins Salt, Tabasco Dry Flavoring, Red Pepper, so the useful next step is to inspect those few components directly rather than infer from the composite score. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 4 analyzed
Group 2
Processed ingredients
0011210008199
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

90/100

Grade A+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 2

Processed culinary ingredients

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.

10008199 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Tabasco® brand spicy salt label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-SHORT 4 ing. REG-SPARSE 25% reg. NOVA-G2 G2 culinary NUTRI-NA Nutri n/a RANK-LONG Len top 96% LEAD-FLAG Salt PHOTO-FINISH Worcestershire sauce · ±0 BOOK-OFF …008199 · July 2026

1 of 4 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Salt). Source sheet 10008199 · 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: Worcestershire sauce · Nearest score peer is Worcestershire sauce 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.

Nutri-Score is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.

The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Tabasco® brand spicy salt: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Tabasco® brand spicy salt100/1002. Worcestershire sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Worcestershire sauce100/1003. Green Pepper Sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Green Pepper Sauce100/1004. Tabasco Buffalo Style: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Tabasco Buffalo Style100/1005. Pepper Sauce: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Pepper Sauce100/100
High-band neighbours for Tabasco® brand spicy salt (100/100) outside Tabasco.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Tabasco® brand spicy salt
100/100
Worcestershire sauce
100/100
Green Pepper Sauce
100/100
Tabasco Buffalo Style
100/100
Pepper Sauce
100/100

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. Tabasco® brand spicy salt 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

Tabasco® brand spicy salt lists 4 ingredients on its label

4 4th percentile a longer ingredient list than 4% of the 27,084 products we track

0–2: 186 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 1,031 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 1,392 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 6–8: 2,093 products (8%). Above this entry. 8–10: 2,811 products (10%). Above this entry. 10–12: 3,070 products (11%). Above this entry. 12–14: 2,818 products (10%). Above this entry. 14–16: 2,724 products (10%). Above this entry. 16–18: 2,451 products (9%). Above this entry. 18–20: 2,045 products (8%). Above this entry. 20–22: 1,563 products (6%). Above this entry. 22–24: 1,244 products (5%). Above this entry. 24–26: 934 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 694 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 551 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 420 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 246 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 196 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 135 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 134 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 346 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Condiments product, bucketed by value

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

27,084 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 4 (4th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
186 products (1%)
2–4
1,031 products (4%)
4–6
1,392 products (5%)
6–8
2,093 products (8%)
8–10
2,811 products (10%)
10–12
3,070 products (11%)
12–14
2,818 products (10%)
14–16
2,724 products (10%)
16–18
2,451 products (9%)
18–20
2,045 products (8%)
20–22
1,563 products (6%)
22–24
1,244 products (5%)
24–26
934 products (3%)
26–28
694 products (3%)
28–30
551 products (2%)
30–32
420 products (2%)
32–34
246 products (1%)
34–36
196 products (1%)
36–38
135 products (0%)
38–40
134 products (0%)
40 and above
346 products (1%)

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.

Full Ingredient List

Salt, tabasco dry flavoring (red pepper, distilled vinegar, salt).

Categories

Condiments Salts Groceries

High-score cross-brand comparables for Tabasco® brand spicy salt

Neighbours outside Tabasco with screening scores in the same high band as Tabasco® brand spicy salt (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tabasco; 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).

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tabasco® brand spicy salt's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 4-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Salt. Open Salt
  • Compare Tabasco® brand spicy salt's 0 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 0011210008199: 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.