Pesto sandwich spread & dip
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071100211726 · Hidden Valley · Fats. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pesto sandwich spread & dip by Hidden Valley scores 20/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 35 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 35-component record, beginning with Water, Canola Oil, Dried Cream Cheese. 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.
- 20/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 35 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
28/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
20/100
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.
00211726 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pesto sandwich spread & dip label screening desk
13 of 35 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 00211726 · 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: lite grape drink mix · Nearest score peer is lite grape drink mix 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 lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
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.
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 6,337 products we've scored in the Fats category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Pesto sandwich spread & dip scores 79.8 points below that category average (20/100 vs. 99.8/100), 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 Fats products
Pesto sandwich spread & dip lists 35 ingredients on its label
35 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 788 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 13 products (2%)
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- 228 products (29%)
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- 41 products (5%)
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- 42 products (5%)
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- 50 products (6%)
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- 82 products (10%)
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- 114 products (14%)
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- 31 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 17 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 4 products (1%)
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- 9 products (1%)
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- 3 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 10 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 788 Fats 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 20/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 35 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, canola oil, cream cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), dried white beans, whey protein concentrate, parmesan and asiago cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), sugar, less than 2% of: basil, garlic, spice, natural flavors (soy), dried garlic, xanthan gum, cellulose gum, monosodium glutamate, sodium polyphosphate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, vinegar, mono and diglycerides, phosphoric acid, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1, dried onion, caramel color, salt, dried garlic, sorbic acid and calcium disodium edta as preservatives, guar gum.
Other products containing Parmesan And Asiago Cheese
Parmesan And Asiago Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 16 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Hidden Valley
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Pesto sandwich spread & dip
Neighbours outside Hidden Valley in the same lower screening band as Pesto sandwich spread & dip (20/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hidden Valley; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 35 on 0071100211726).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (35 on 0071100211726).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pesto sandwich spread & dip's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 35-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Pesto sandwich spread & dip's 4 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 0071100211726: 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.