Safe

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken

by Trader Joe's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 00962858 · Trader Joe's · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 00962858 · Serving size 1 container with dressing (312 g)

The verdict

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 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 50-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Tomatoes, Spring Lettuce Mix. 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 50 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.

00962858 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 50 ing. REG-SPARSE 10% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-SHORT Len top 16% LEAD-RARE Potato Starch PHOTO-FINISH natural bliss Real · ±0 BOOK-OFF …962858 · July 2026

5 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potato Starch). Source sheet 00962858 · 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: natural bliss Real Milk & Cream pistachio · Nearest score peer is natural bliss Real Milk & Cream pistachio 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

1. Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Harvest Salad with Grille…100/1002. natural bliss Real Milk & Cream pistachio: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. natural bliss Real Milk &…100/1003. Cinnamon toast crunch coffee creamer: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Cinnamon toast crunch cof…100/1004. Plant Protein: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Plant Protein100/1005. Ath LYTES - Sports Nutrition Packets: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ath LYTES - Sports Nutrit…100/100
High-band neighbours for Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken (100/100) outside Trader Joe's.
Chart values as text

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

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken
100/100
natural bliss Real Milk & Cream pistachio
100/100
Cinnamon toast crunch coffee creamer
100/100
Plant Protein
100/100
Ath LYTES - Sports Nutrition Packets
100/100

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. Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken 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

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken lists 50 ingredients on its label

50 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Below this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Below this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Meals 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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 50 (84th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
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.

Full Ingredient List

SALAD: ROMAINE LETTUCE, TOMATOES, SPRING LETTUCE MIX (MAY CONTAIN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: TANGO, BABY GREEN LEAF, BABY GREEN ROMAINE, BABY GREEN OAK, GREEN CHARD, MIZUNA, FRISEE, BABY RED LEAF, BABY RED OAK, LOLLA ROSA, RED SWISS CHARD, BABY RED ROMAINE, RED MUSTARD), GRILLED CHICKEN BREAST (BONELESS CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, CANOLA OIL, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, GRANULATED GARLIC, BLACK PEPPER), GREEN BEANS, CORN (CORN, WATER, SUGAR, SALT), WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, VEGETABLE RENNET), HARD COOKED EGG, BLACK PEPPER., CREAMY DIJON DRESSING: MAYONNAISE (EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, WHOLE EGGS, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, WATER, EGG YOLKS, SALT, WHITE MUSTARD [DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, WATER, MUSTARD SEEDS, SALT], LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE), RICE VINEGAR, WATER, SUGAR, SEA SALT, DIJON MUSTARD (DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, MUSTARD SEED, SALT, WHITE WINE, CITRIC ACID [TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS], TURMERIC, SPICES), BLACK PEPPER, SPICES.

Categories

Meals Prepared salads

High-score cross-brand comparables for Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken

Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Harvest Salad with Grilled Chicken has a longer ingredient list than 84% of its Meals category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 00962858: 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.