Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing
by Papa John's Salad & Produce
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0782796027019 · Papa John's Salad & Produce · Salted-snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing by Papa John's Salad & Produce scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 56 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 56-component record, beginning with Romaine Lettuce, Chicken, Skinless Boneless Chicken Breast. 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 56 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.
96027019 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing label screening desk
16 of 56 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 96027019 · 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: Country Club Wrap · Nearest score peer is Country Club Wrap 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 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
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 With Romano Dressing 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
Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing lists 56 ingredients on its label
56 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 5,429 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 56 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Romaine lettuce, chicken (skinless boneless chicken breast), caesar dressing (canola oil, water, romano cheese (milk, culture, salt, enzymes), egg yolk, garlic, distilled vinegar, dijon mustard [water, mustard seed, distilled vinegar, salt, white wine, citric acid, turmeric (color), tartaric acid, spices], salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, anchovies, dreid garlic, mustard flour, spice, xanthan gum), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, and powdered cellulose (anti-caking agent)), croutons (enriched flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin , reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil, water, whey, salt, contains 2% or less: high fructose corn syrup, parsley spices, sugar, paprika, onion powder, yeast, wheat gluten, turmeric (for color), tbhq (to preserve freshness)). high oleic canola oil (high oleic canola oil*, soy lecithin.*adds a trivial amount of fat).
Other products containing Parsley Spices
Parsley Spices is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing
Neighbours outside Papa John's Salad & Produce with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Papa John's Salad & Produce; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 56 on 0782796027019).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (56 on 0782796027019).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 56-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare Chicken Caesar Salad With Romano Dressing'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 0782796027019: 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.