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Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad

by Hy-Vee

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075450246698 · Hy-Vee · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0075450246698 · Serving size 1.5 cup (100 g)

The verdict

Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad by Hy-Vee scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 43 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 43-component record, beginning with Green Cabbage, Red Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 43 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
A
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

75/100

Grade B+

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

A

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.

50246698 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 43 ing. REG-PART 30% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-SHORT Len top 2% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-FINISH General Tso'S Chicken · ±0 BOOK-OFF …246698 · July 2026

13 of 43 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 50246698 · 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: General Tso'S Chicken Fully Cooked Tempura Chicken Dark Meat With General Tso'S Sauce Packet, General Tso'S Chicken · Nearest score peer is General Tso'S Chicken Fully Cooked Tempura Chicken Dark Meat With General Tso'S Sauce Packet, General Tso'S Chicken 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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.

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

1. Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Southwest Salad Red & Gre…95/1002. General Tso'S Chicken Fully Cooked Tempura Chicken Dark Meat With General Tso'S Sauce Packet, General Tso'S Chicken: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. General Tso'S Chicken Ful…95/1003. Caramel Pecan Ice Cream: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Caramel Pecan Ice Cream95/1004. Til The Cows Come Home, Bean There Done That, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Til The Cows Come Home, B…95/1005. It was mint to be mint ice cream with fudge revel and chocolate cookies: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. It was mint to be mint ic…95/100
High-band neighbours for Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad (95/100) outside Hy-Vee.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad
95/100
General Tso'S Chicken Fully Cooked Tempura Chicken Dark Meat With General Tso'S Sauce Packet, General Tso'S Chicken
95/100
Caramel Pecan Ice Cream
95/100
Til The Cows Come Home, Bean There Done That, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
95/100
It was mint to be mint ice cream with fudge revel and chocolate cookies
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad scores 2.7 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products

Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad lists 43 ingredients on its label

43 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Below this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Below this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

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

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 43 (98th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages 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 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 43 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Green Cabbage
2
Red Cabbage
3
Green Leaf Lettuce
4
Carrots
5
Nonfat Greek Yogurt
6
Cultured Skim Milk
7
Milk Protein Concentrate
8
Cornstarch
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
9
Tapioca Starch
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
10
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
11
Locust Bean Gum
12
Canola Oil
13
Water
14
Egg Yolk
15
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
16
Less Than 2% Of Distilled Vinegar
17
Jalapeno Peppers
18
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
19
Green Onion
20
Gluconic acid
pH Control
Safe
21
Apple Cider Vinegar
22
Spices
23
Acacia Gum
24
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
25
Xanthan Gum
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FORMULATION AID, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Approved
26
Onion
27
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
28
Dehydrated Bell Pepper
29
Chili Powder
30
Paprika
31
Pasteurized Milk
32
Cellulose
Emulsifier
Safe
33
Cheese Culture
34
Enzymes
35
Annatto
Coloring
Certain People Should Avoid
36
Vegetable Color
37
Natamycin
FUMIGANT
Safe Approved
38
Natural Mold Inhibitor
39
Stone Ground Organic Yellow Corn
40
Stone Ground Blue Corn
41
Sunflower Oil Or Corn Oil
42
Sea salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
43
Trace Of Lime

Full Ingredient List

Vegetables: Green Cabbage, Red Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onion. Dressing: Nonfat Greek Yogurt (Cultured Skim Milk, Milk Protein Concentrate, Cornstarch, Tapioca Starch, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum), Canola Oil, Water, Egg Yolk, Salt, Less Than 2% Of Distilled Vinegar, Jalapeno Peppers, Sugar, Green Onion, Gluconic Acid, Apple Cider Vinegar, Spices, Acacia Gum, Dried Garlic, Xanthan Gum, Dried Onion, Lactic Acid, Dried Bell Pepper, Chili Powder (Spices, Salt, Paprika, Dried Garlic). Cheese Blend: Pasteurized Milk, Powdered Cellulose (To Prevent Caking), Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Annatto (Vegetable Color), Natamycin (A Natural Mold Inhibitor). Tortilla Strips: Stone Ground Yellow Corn, Stone Ground Blue Corn, Sunflower Oil Or Corn Oil, Sea Salt, Water, Trace Of Lime.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Fruits and vegetables based foods

High-score cross-brand comparables for Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad

Neighbours outside Hy-Vee with screening scores in the same high band as Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hy-Vee; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 43-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Southwest Salad Red & Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Carrots, Green Onions, Greek Yogurt Jalapeno Ranch Dressing, Mexican Cheese Blend, Yellow & Blue Tortilla Strips Chopped Kit, Southwest Salad'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 0075450246698: 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.