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Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0030223109822 · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0030223109822 · Serving size 1 cup (100 g)

The verdict

Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Cilantro Dressing, Canola Oil. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One 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

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

95/100

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.

23109822 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 67 ing. REG-SPARSE 21% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …109822 · July 2026

14 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 23109822 · 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

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 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 6,228 products we've scored in the Salted-snacks category, the average safety score is 94.1/100. Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken scores 0.9 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 94.1/100), 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 Salted-snacks products

Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken lists 67 ingredients on its label

67 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 5,429 products we track

0–2: 3 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 222 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 793 products (15%). Below this entry. 6–8: 689 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 1,036 products (19%). Below this entry. 10–12: 817 products (15%). Below this entry. 12–14: 570 products (10%). Below this entry. 14–16: 243 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 168 products (3%). Below this entry. 18–20: 67 products (1%). Below this entry. 20–22: 47 products (1%). Below this entry. 22–24: 30 products (1%). Below this entry. 24–26: 41 products (1%). Below this entry. 26–28: 32 products (1%). Below this entry. 28–30: 36 products (1%). Below this entry. 30–32: 41 products (1%). Below this entry. 32–34: 47 products (1%). Below this entry. 34–36: 47 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 46 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 47 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 407 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Salted-snacks 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

5,429 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 67 (99th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3 products (0%)
2–4
222 products (4%)
4–6
793 products (15%)
6–8
689 products (13%)
8–10
1,036 products (19%)
10–12
817 products (15%)
12–14
570 products (10%)
14–16
243 products (4%)
16–18
168 products (3%)
18–20
67 products (1%)
20–22
47 products (1%)
22–24
30 products (1%)
24–26
41 products (1%)
26–28
32 products (1%)
28–30
36 products (1%)
30–32
41 products (1%)
32–34
47 products (1%)
34–36
47 products (1%)
36–38
46 products (1%)
38–40
47 products (1%)
40 and above
407 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. The comparison here runs against the 5,429 Salted-snacks 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 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Romaine Lettuce
2
Cilantro Dressing
3
Canola Oil
4
Water
5
Cilantro
6
Poblano Chiles
7
Cotija Cheese
8
Milk
9
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
10
Culture
11
Enzymes
12
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
13
Red Wine Vinegar
14
Pumpkin Seed
15
Egg Yolk
16
Distilled Vinegar
17
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
18
Skim Milk Powder Blend
19
Dairy Whey
20
Sodium Caseinate
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
21
Skim Milk Powder
22
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
23
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
24
Natural Flavors
25
Whey Powder
26
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
27
Turmeric Extract
28
Color
29
Corn Starch
30
Butter Extractives
31
Roasted Corn
32
Southwest Style Chicken Breast Meat With Rib Meat
33
Smoke Flavor Added
34
Chicken Breast Meat With Rib Meat
35
Sodium Lactate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, WASHING OR SURFACE REMOVAL AGENT
GRAS
36
Potassium Lactate
FLAVOR ENHANCER
GRAS
37
Brown Sugar
38
Sodium Phosphate
39
Chipotle Pepper
40
Garlic Powder
41
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid
42
Chili Pepper
43
Onion Powder
44
Spices
45
Cumin
46
Sodium Citrate
47
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
48
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
49
Sodium Diacetate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
50
Disodium Inosinate And Disodium Guanylate
51
Corn Syrup Solids
52
Spice Extractive
53
Lime Juice Solids
54
Mesquite Smoke Flavor
55
Pasteurized Grade A Milk
56
Sea salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
57
Cultures
58
Enzyme
59
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe
60
Anti-caking Agent
61
Tortilla Strips
62
Stone Ground Organic Yellow Corn
63
Stone Ground Blue Corn
64
Sunflower Oil Or Corn Oil
65
Trace Of Lime
66
Red Bell Pepper
67
Jalapeno Pepper

Full Ingredient List

Romaine lettuce, cilantro dressing (canola oil, water, cilantro, poblano chiles, cotija cheese [milk, salt, culture, enzymes], maltodextrin, red wine vinegar, pumpkin seed, egg yolk, salt, distilled vinegar, sugar, skim milk powder blend [dairy whey, sodium caseinate, skim milk powder], dried garlic, xanthan gum, natural flavors, whey powder, skim milk powder, carrageenan, turmeric extract [color], modified corn starch, butter extractives), roasted corn, southwest style chicken breast meat with rib meat, smoke flavor added (chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, contains 2% or less of the following: sodium lactate, potassium lactate, salt, brown sugar, sodium phosphate, chipotle pepper, garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, chili pepper, sugar, onion powder, spices [including cumin], sodium citrate, hydrolyzed soy protein, citric acid, sodium diacetate, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, corn syrup solids, spice extractive, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, lime juice solids, mesquite smoke flavor), cotija cheese (cotija cheese [pasteurized grade a milk, sea salt, cultures, enzyme], cellulose [anti-caking agent]), tortilla strips (stone ground yellow corn, stone ground blue corn, sunflower oil or corn oil, sea salt, water, trace of lime), red bell pepper, jalapeno pepper.

Categories

Salted-snacks

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken'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 Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Mexican style salad with chicken romaine lettuce, roasted corn, southwest style white chicken meat, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers with cilantro dressing, mexican style salad with chicken'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 0030223109822: 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.