Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix
by Mezzetta
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073214001248 · Mezzetta · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix by Mezzetta scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 15 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 15-component label led by Canola Oil, Serrano Peppers, Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 15 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- E
- 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
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
Processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
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.
14001248 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix label screening desk
2 of 15 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Calcium Chloride). Source sheet 14001248 · 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: California Hot Mix · Nearest score peer is California Hot Mix at the same screening score.
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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
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. Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix scores 5.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 94.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong 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
Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix lists 15 ingredients on its label
15 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 5,429 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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
Full Ingredient List
Canola oil, serrano peppers, extra virgin olive oil, celery, cauliflower, green bell peppers, carrots, red bell peppers, olives, white wine vinegar, sea salt, spices, distilled vinegar, calcium chloride, sodium bisulfite added as a color stabilizer.
Other products containing Sodium Bisulfite Added As A Color Stabilizer
Sodium Bisulfite Added As A Color Stabilizer is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 21 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix
Neighbours outside Mezzetta with screening scores in the same high band as Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mezzetta; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (15 on 0073214001248).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Hot Chicago Style Giardiniera Sandwich Mix has a longer ingredient list than 79% of its Salted-snacks category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Calcium Chloride first, then work through the remaining 15 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0073214001248: 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.