Chef salad
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0492860300565 · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chef salad scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 80 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 80-component record, beginning with Spring Lettuce Mix, Green Leaf Lettuce, Organic Spring 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 80 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
60300565 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chef salad label screening desk
19 of 80 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 60300565 · 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
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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.
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. Chef salad scores 9.1 points below that category average (85/100 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
Chef salad lists 80 ingredients on its label
80 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 3 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 222 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 793 products (15%)
- 6–8
- 689 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,036 products (19%)
- 10–12
- 817 products (15%)
- 12–14
- 570 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 243 products (4%)
- 16–18
- 168 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 67 products (1%)
- 20–22
- 47 products (1%)
- 22–24
- 30 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 41 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 32 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 36 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 41 products (1%)
- 32–34
- 47 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 47 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 46 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 80 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Spring lettuce mix (green leaf lettuce, spring mix [may contain some or all of the following baby whole leaf varieties: green leaf, mizuna, green romaine, tango, greek oak, green chard, baby spinach, arugula, frisee, tatsoi, mache, red chard, red leaf, lolla rosa, red romaine, red mustard, radicchio, red oak, beet tops], carrots), buttermilk ranch dressing (soybean oil, buttermilk [cultured pasteurized skim milk and milk, sodium citrate and salt], water, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, salt, contains less than 2% of: egg yolk, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, monosodium glutamate, polysorbate 60, torula yeast, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [as preservatives], xanthan gum, sweet cream [cream, soy lecithin], spice, lactic acid, dehydrated parsley, phosphoric acid, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor), hard cooked eggs (eggs, water, citric acid, sodium benzoate), oven roasted turkey breast (turkey breast, water, contains 2% or less of sugar, salt, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium nitrite, potassium lactate, sodium erythorbate), cooked ham and water product (cured with water, dextrose, salt, sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), grape tomato, cheddar and monterey jack cheese blend (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color)], monterey jack cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], potato starch and powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], natamycin [mold inhibitor]), black olives (salt, ferrous gluconate).
Other products containing Spring Lettuce Mix
Spring Lettuce Mix is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chef salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 80-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Chef 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 0492860300565: 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.