Chicken Caesar Salad
by Archer Farms
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0492860300046 · Archer Farms · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Caesar Salad by Archer Farms scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 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 41-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Seasoned Chicken Breast With Rib Meat, Chicken Breast With Rib Meat. 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 41 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
60300046 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Caesar Salad label screening desk
10 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 60300046 · 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: Double Rainbow, Sorbet, Coconut · Nearest score peer is Double Rainbow, Sorbet, Coconut 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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. Chicken Caesar Salad scores 0.9 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 94.1/100), 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 Salted-snacks products
Chicken Caesar Salad lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 5,429 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Romaine lettuce, seasoned chicken breast with rib meat (chicken breast with rib meat, water, less than 2% soy protein concentrate, sodium lactate, salt, modified food starch, carrageenan, sodium phosphate), caesar dressing (water, canola oil, garlic, dijon mustard [water, mustard seed, distilled vinegar, salt, white wine, citric acid, turmeric {color}, tartaric acid, spices], parmesan cheese [milk, culture, salt, enzymes], egg yolk, distilled vinegar, dried garlic, salt, pepper sauce [cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic], lemon juice concentrate, sugar, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, carrageenan gum, mustard flour, spice, anchovies, natural flavor), parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes).
Other products containing Seasoned Chicken Breast With Rib Meat
Seasoned Chicken Breast With Rib Meat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 15 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Caesar Salad
Neighbours outside Archer Farms with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Caesar Salad (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Archer Farms; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 41 on 0492860300046).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0492860300046).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Caesar Salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Chicken Caesar 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 0492860300046: 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.