Elote Chopped Salad Kit
by Trader Joe's
Scores 100/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with no flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Elote Chopped Salad Kit by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 56-component record, beginning with Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Smoked Paprika Cornbread Crumble. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 56 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
00747684 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Elote Chopped Salad Kit label screening desk
Elote Chopped Salad Kit scores 100/100 across a 56-component declaration with no caution flags in the parsed set. 12 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Acetic Acid). Longer lists compress many small registry contributions into one figure — see the table below. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: ALBACORE TUNA · Nearest score peer is ALBACORE TUNA 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 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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Elote Chopped Salad Kit scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Elote Chopped Salad Kit lists 56 ingredients on its label
56 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
- 12–14
- 412 products (4%)
- 14–16
- 477 products (4%)
- 16–18
- 542 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 552 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 574 products (5%)
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- 517 products (5%)
- 32–34
- 466 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 451 products (4%)
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- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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
Green cabbage, green leaf lettuce, smoked paprika cornbread crumble (unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cornbread mix (cornmeal, sugar, corn flour, vital wheat gluten), sunflower oil, rosemary extract, smoked paprika seasoning (smoked paprika, salt, maltodextrin, sugar, vinegar powder (maltodextrin, distilled white vinegar, rice hulls), palm oil shortening, salt, yeast), red cabbage, carrot, kale, cotija cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), powdered cellulose, sweet corn, green onion, creamy elote style dressing (soybean oil, water, sour cream (pasteurized cultured milk, cream), non-fat milk powder, bovine gelatin, distilled vinegar, salt, egg yolks, cornstarch, sugar, red jalapeño peppers, lime juice concentrate, natural flavors, xanthan gum, mustard seed, phosphoric acid, acetic acid, paprika oleoresin)
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Elote Chopped Salad Kit
Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Elote Chopped Salad Kit (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; 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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (56 on 00747684).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Elote Chopped Salad Kit has a longer ingredient list than 89% of its Meals category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Acetic Acid first, then work through the remaining 56 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 00747684: 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.