Garden Salad
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0657815041034 · 18th Street Select · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Garden Salad by 18th Street Select scores 70/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 35 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 35-component record, beginning with Lettuce, Carrots, Cabbage. 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.
- 70/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 35 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
70/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
15041034 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Garden Salad label screening desk
14 of 35 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Azodicarbonamide). Source sheet 15041034 · 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: Chorizo Crumbles · Nearest score peer is Chorizo Crumbles at the same screening score.
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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Garden Salad scores 24.1 points below that category average (70/100 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
Garden Salad lists 35 ingredients on its label
35 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% 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 70/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 35 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Salad mix: lettuce, carrots, cabbage; cherry tomatoes; carrots; red onions; croutons: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), canola oil, whey, yeast, salt, 2% or less of high fructose corn syrup, wheat gluten, calcium propionate (preservative), calcium peroxide, calcium sulfate, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sugar, spices, dehydrated parsley, onion powder, paprika, turmeric, extractive of paprika, spice extractive, tbhq (to preserve freshness).
Other products containing 2% Or Less Of High Fructose Corn Syrup
2% Or Less Of High Fructose Corn Syrup is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 39 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Garden Salad
Neighbours outside 18th Street Select near Garden Salad's mid-band score (70/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within 18th Street Select; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 35 on 0657815041034).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (35 on 0657815041034).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Azodicarbonamide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Garden Salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 35-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Azodicarbonamide. Open Azodicarbonamide
- Compare Garden Salad's 2 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 0657815041034: 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.