Chicken caesar salad
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0030223103202 · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken caesar salad scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Chicken Breast, Water. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 67 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
75/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
23103202 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken caesar salad label screening desk
21 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 23103202 · 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
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Chicken caesar salad scores 18.6 points below that category average (75/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Meals products
Chicken caesar salad lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
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- 209 products (2%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 315 products (3%)
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- 412 products (4%)
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- 542 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 545 products (5%)
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- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 574 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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
How the 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Romaine lettuce, chicken breast (chicken breast, water, sea salt, stabilizer [rice starch, carrageenan, potassium chloride, magnesium carbonate], distilled vinegar, sodium tripolyphosphate), caesar dressing (soybean oil water, egg yolk, lemon juice concentrate, salt white wine and distilled vinegars, spices [including mustard seed], parmesan cheese [part-skim milk. cheese culture, salt, enzymes], dehydrated garlic sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [preservatives], dehydrated onion, extra virgin olive oil, xanthan gum, natural flavors, propylene glycol alginate, molasses, corn syrup, caramel color, sugar, tamarind, calcium disodium edta [preservative], anchovies), parmesan cheese (parmesan cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], and powdered cellulose [anti-caking agent]), multigrain cheese garlic croutons (enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], canola and/or sunflower oil, whole wheat flour, whey, salt. yeast, contains 2% or less of high fructose corn syrup, rye meal, wheat gluten, caramel color dehydrated parsley, garlic powder, calcium propionate [preservative], ascorbic acid. honey natural and artificial flavor, parmesan cheese and enzyme modified cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], cultured nonfat milk annatto [color], extractives of turmeric and paprika [color], enzymes, tbhq [preservative])
Other products containing Salt. Yeast
Salt. Yeast is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken caesar salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 67-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Chicken caesar salad's 3 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 0030223103202: 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.