Italian style chopped salad
by Ready Pac
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0077745296524 · Ready Pac · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Italian style chopped salad by Ready Pac scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 65 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 65-component record, beginning with Vegetable Blend, Escarole, Endive. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 65 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
65/100
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.
45296524 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Italian style chopped salad label screening desk
16 of 65 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 45296524 · 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: High Protein Baked Bar · Nearest score peer is High Protein Baked Bar 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. Italian style chopped salad scores 29.1 points below that category average (65/100 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
Italian style chopped salad lists 65 ingredients on its label
65 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 5,429 products we track
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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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- 243 products (4%)
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- 67 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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 65 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Vegetable blend (escarole, endive, broccoli, cauliflower, radicchio, carrots, red cabbage, ingredients may vary by season), reduced calorie champagne vinaigrette (water, vegetable oil [soybean oil and/or canola oil], salted champagne wine, white balsamic vinegar, sugar, salt, spices, natural flavors [soy], dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate [as a preservative], calcium disodium edta [to protect flavor], dehydrated chive), italian style fontina cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, potato starch and powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]), black olives (olives, water, salt, ferrous gluconate [to stabilize color]), genoa salami (pork, beef, salt, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, spices, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite, garlic powder; bha, bht and citric acid [added to help protect flavor]). smoked turkey breast (cured with water, contains 2% or less of: salt, dextrose, modified corn starch, sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, natural flavoring, sodium diacetate, natural mesquite smoke flavor, ascorbic acid, sodium nitrite, citric acid), pepperoncini (peppers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, citric acid, sodium benzoate, sodium bisulfate [preservative]).
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Italian style chopped salad
Neighbours outside Ready Pac near Italian style chopped salad's mid-band score (65/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Ready Pac; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 65 on 0077745296524).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (65 on 0077745296524).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Italian style chopped salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 65-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Italian style chopped salad'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 0077745296524: 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.