Mild Salsa
by La Mexicana
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0020113001725 · La Mexicana · Salsa. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mild Salsa by La Mexicana scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 17-component label is layered, beginning with Fresh Tomatoes, Fresh Onions, Fresh Green Bell Pepper. 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 17 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
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
78/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
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.
13001725 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mild Salsa label screening desk
7 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 13001725 · 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: Magoun's Kitchen, Peach Lemonade · Nearest score peer is Magoun's Kitchen, Peach Lemonade 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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 84 products we've scored in the Salsa category, the average safety score is 99.1/100. Mild Salsa scores 0.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.1/100), 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 Salsa products
Mild Salsa lists 17 ingredients on its label
17 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 68 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 6–8
- 3 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 12 products (18%)
- 10–12
- 8 products (12%)
- 12–14
- 15 products (22%)
- 14–16
- 13 products (19%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (12%)
- 18–20
- 5 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 1 products (1%)
- 22 and above
- 3 products (4%)
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 68 Salsa 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
FRESH TOMATOES, FRESH ONIONS, FRESH GREEN BELL PEPPER, SALT, FRESH JALAPENO PEPPERS, FRESH CILANTRO, CITRIC ACID, WATER, SODIUM BENZOATE & POTASSIUM SORBATE (MAINTAINS FRESHNESS), LACTIC ACID, GARLIC, XANTHAN GUM, ASCORBIC ACID, BEET POWDER (COLOR), PHOSPHORIC ACID
Other products containing Fresh Green Bell Pepper
Fresh Green Bell Pepper is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 7 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Mild Salsa
Neighbours outside La Mexicana with screening scores in the same high band as Mild Salsa (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within La Mexicana; 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).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (17 on 0020113001725).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mild Salsa'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 Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Mild Salsa'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 0020113001725: 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.