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Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken

by Archer Farms

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0085239030219 · Archer Farms · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0085239030219 · Serving size 2 Tbsp (25 g)

The verdict

Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken by Archer Farms scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 44 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 44-component record, beginning with Dried Cream Cheese, Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Cheese Culture. 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 44 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
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

55/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-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.

39030219 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 44 ing. REG-SPARSE 20% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 1% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-FINISH Taco Seasoned Dip · ±0 BOOK-OFF …030219 · July 2026

9 of 44 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 39030219 · 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: Taco Seasoned Dip · Nearest score peer is Taco Seasoned Dip 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.

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. Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Archer farms, dip, buffal…95/1002. Taco Seasoned Dip: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Taco Seasoned Dip95/1003. Smoked Salmon Dip: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Smoked Salmon Dip95/1004. Baked Pie: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Baked Pie95/1005. Hot Diced Jalapenos: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Hot Diced Jalapenos95/100
High-band neighbours for Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken (95/100) outside Archer Farms.
Chart values as text

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

Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken
95/100
Taco Seasoned Dip
95/100
Smoked Salmon Dip
95/100
Baked Pie
95/100
Hot Diced Jalapenos
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken scores 3.3 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 98.3/100), 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 Condiments products

Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken lists 44 ingredients on its label

44 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 27,084 products we track

0–2: 186 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 1,031 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 1,392 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 2,093 products (8%). Below this entry. 8–10: 2,811 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 3,070 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 2,818 products (10%). Below this entry. 14–16: 2,724 products (10%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,451 products (9%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,045 products (8%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,563 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,244 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 934 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 694 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 551 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 420 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 246 products (1%). Below this entry. 34–36: 196 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 135 products (0%). Below this entry. 38–40: 134 products (0%). Below this entry. 40–42: 346 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Condiments 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

27,084 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 44 (99th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
186 products (1%)
2–4
1,031 products (4%)
4–6
1,392 products (5%)
6–8
2,093 products (8%)
8–10
2,811 products (10%)
10–12
3,070 products (11%)
12–14
2,818 products (10%)
14–16
2,724 products (10%)
16–18
2,451 products (9%)
18–20
2,045 products (8%)
20–22
1,563 products (6%)
22–24
1,244 products (5%)
24–26
934 products (3%)
26–28
694 products (3%)
28–30
551 products (2%)
30–32
420 products (2%)
32–34
246 products (1%)
34–36
196 products (1%)
36–38
135 products (0%)
38–40
134 products (0%)
40 and above
346 products (1%)

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 27,084 Condiments 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 44 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Dried Cream Cheese
2
Pasteurized Milk And Cream
3
Cheese Culture
4
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
5
Carob Bean Gum
6
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
7
Guar Gum
8
Dressing
9
Soybean Oil
10
Water
11
High-fructose corn syrup
Sweetener
Cut Back
12
Blue Cheese
13
Pasteurized Milk
14
Cheese Cultures
15
Enzymes
16
Distilled Vinegar
17
Egg Yolks
18
Natural And Artificial Flavor
19
Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate And Calcium Disodium Edta
20
Preservatives
21
Fully Cooked Chicken
22
Skinless Boneless Chicken Breast
23
With Rib Meat
24
Chicken Broth
25
Corn Starch
26
Seasoning
27
Potassium Citrate
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT
GRAS
28
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
29
Sodium Diacetate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Safe GRAS
30
Vegetable Oil
31
Sodium Phosphates
32
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
33
Natural Flavor
34
Jack Cheese
35
Potato Starch And Powdered Cellulose
36
Anti Caking
37
Natamycin
FUMIGANT
Safe Approved
38
Preservative
39
Hot Pepper Sauce
40
Peppers
41
Dried Vinegar
42
Garlic Powder
43
Sodium Lactate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, WASHING OR SURFACE REMOVAL AGENT
GRAS
44
Cayenne Pepper

Full Ingredient List

Cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, guar gum), dressing (soybean oil, water, high fructose corn syrup, blue cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], distilled vinegar, egg yolks, salt, natural and artificial flavor, xanthan gum, salt, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate and calcium disodium edta [preservatives]), fully cooked chicken (skinless boneless chicken breast [with rib meat], chicken broth, salt, modified corn starch, seasoning [potassium citrate, citric acid, sodium diacetate, vegetable oil], sodium phosphates, carrageenan, natural flavor), jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, potato starch and powdered cellulose [anti caking], natamycin [preservative]), hot pepper sauce (peppers, vinegar, water, salt, garlic powder), sodium lactate, sodium diacetate, cayenne pepper.

Categories

Condiments Sauces Dips Groceries

High-score cross-brand comparables for Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken

Neighbours outside Archer Farms with screening scores in the same high band as Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Archer Farms; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken'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 Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Archer farms, dip, buffalo style chicken'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 0085239030219: 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.