Carne asada tacos
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0038281101109 · Mexican-dinner-mixes. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Carne asada tacos scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 62 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 62-component record, beginning with Steaks, Shoulder Roast, Flour Tortillas. 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 62 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
75/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
81101109 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Carne asada tacos label screening desk
20 of 62 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 81101109 · 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 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.
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 935 products we've scored in the Mexican-dinner-mixes category, the average safety score is 97.6/100. Carne asada tacos scores 2.6 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 97.6/100), 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 Mexican-dinner-mixes products
Carne asada tacos lists 62 ingredients on its label
62 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product 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
- 1 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 26 products (3%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (6%)
- 6–8
- 77 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 67 products (8%)
- 10–12
- 54 products (6%)
- 12–14
- 46 products (5%)
- 14–16
- 53 products (6%)
- 16–18
- 45 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 53 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 50 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 46 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 49 products (6%)
- 26–28
- 63 products (7%)
- 28–30
- 49 products (6%)
- 30–32
- 33 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 43 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 14 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 21 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 6 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 21 products (2%)
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 871 Mexican-dinner-mixes 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 62 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Steaks (shoulder roast), flour tortillas (enriched unbleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron (reduced iron), thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, vegetable shortening (palm oil), salt, mono - and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, calcium propionate, sugar, sodium bicarbonate, wheat starch, fumaric acid, vital wheat gluten, sorbic acid, guar gum, cmc gum, enzymes (wheat starch, microcrystalline cellulose), sodium metabisulfite, dough improver (par lax)), green cabbage, avocado, red onion, limes, tomato, jalapeno, nonfat sour cream (cultured nonfat milk, whey protein concentrate, cream, food starch-modified, contains 2% or less of: corn starch, maltodextrin, cultured dextrose, artificial color, potassium sorbate (preservative), tetrasodium pyrophosphate, guar gum, locust bean gum, carrageenan, gellan gum, vitamin a palmitate), garlic, cilantro, spice mix (cumin, chipotle powder, chili powder, smoked paprika, oregano).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Carne asada tacos's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 62-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Carne asada tacos'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 0038281101109: 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.