Tuscan Salad Kit
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0071279407104 · Fresh Express · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tuscan Salad Kit by Fresh Express scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 44 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 44-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Red Cabbage, 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 44 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
45/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
55/100
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.
79407104 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tuscan Salad Kit label screening desk
10 of 44 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 79407104 · 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: Sliced Pepperoni · Nearest score peer is Sliced Pepperoni at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Tuscan Salad Kit scores 39.1 points below that category average (55/100 vs. 94.1/100), 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 Salted-snacks products
Tuscan Salad Kit lists 44 ingredients on its label
44 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 5,429 products 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
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- 3 products (0%)
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- 222 products (4%)
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- 793 products (15%)
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- 689 products (13%)
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- 1,036 products (19%)
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- 817 products (15%)
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- 570 products (10%)
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- 243 products (4%)
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- 168 products (3%)
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- 67 products (1%)
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- 47 products (1%)
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- 41 products (1%)
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- 47 products (1%)
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- 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 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 44 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Salad: romaine lettuce, red cabbage, dressing: water, soybean oil, distilled vinegar, sugar, salt, dried garlic parmesan cheese (part skim milk, culture, salt, enzymes), dried onion, dried bell pepper, cellulose gel, xanthan gum, spice potassium sorbate (preservative), natural flavor, carrageenan gum, pepitas: pumpkin seeds, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil and/or safflower oil, salt, salami: pork, beef, salt, dextrose, spices, wine, lactic acid starter culture, sodium ascorbate, flavoring, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid, cheese: romano type cheese (pasteurized cow's milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), parmesan type cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), medium asiago cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), potato starch and powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
Categories
More from Fresh Express
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Tuscan Salad Kit
Neighbours outside Fresh Express near Tuscan Salad Kit's mid-band score (55/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Fresh Express; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 44 on 0071279407104).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (44 on 0071279407104).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tuscan Salad Kit's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 44-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Tuscan Salad Kit'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 0071279407104: 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.