Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce
by Ortega
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041501801000 · Ortega · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce by Ortega scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 22 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 22-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Canola Oil, Distilled Vinegar. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 22 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
01801000 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce label screening desk
9 of 22 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 60). Source sheet 01801000 · 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: Süßstoff Tabletten · Nearest score peer is Süßstoff Tabletten at the same screening score.
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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce scores 13.3 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 98.3/100), 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 Condiments products
Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce lists 22 ingredients on its label
22 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 27,084 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 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%)
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- 246 products (1%)
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- 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.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 22 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, canola oil, distilled vinegar, sugar, buttermilk, tomato paste, salt, modified corn starch, dried onion, dried garlic, lemon juice concentrate, spices, propylene glycol alginate, xanthan gum, dried green chili pepper, dried chipotle pepper, lactic acid, citric acid, polysorbate 60, titanium dioxide (color), potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate and calcium disodium edta (to preserve freshness).
Other products containing Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate And Calcium Disodium Edta
Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate And Calcium Disodium Edta is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 23 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce
Neighbours outside Ortega with screening scores in the same high band as Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ortega; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 22 on 0041501801000).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (22 on 0041501801000).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 60 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 22-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 60. Open Polysorbate 60
- Compare Flavor craver taco ranch taco sauce'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 0041501801000: 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.