Plant Based Spicy Queso
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0840224600170 · Primal Kitchen · Salsa. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Plant Based Spicy Queso by Primal Kitchen scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Water, Dried Tomatoes In Tomato Juice, Pumpkin Seed Butter. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 18 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- 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
75/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
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.
24600170 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Plant Based Spicy Queso label screening desk
4 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Tapioca Starch). Source sheet 24600170 · 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: Salazon Chocolate Co., 57% Organic Dark Chocolate Bar With Sea Salt · Nearest score peer is Salazon Chocolate Co., 57% Organic Dark Chocolate Bar With Sea Salt 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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 84 products we've scored in the Salsa category, the average safety score is 99.1/100. Plant Based Spicy Queso scores 0.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.1/100), 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 Salsa products
Plant Based Spicy Queso lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 68 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 6–8
- 3 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 12 products (18%)
- 10–12
- 8 products (12%)
- 12–14
- 15 products (22%)
- 14–16
- 13 products (19%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (12%)
- 18–20
- 5 products (7%)
- 20–22
- 1 products (1%)
- 22 and above
- 3 products (4%)
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 68 Salsa 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
Full Ingredient List
water, organic tomatoes in organic tomato juice, pumpkin seed butter, organic carrot puree, organic red bell peppers, organic jalapenos, organic red jalapeno peppers, salt, organic vinegar, organic distilled vinegar, organic tapioca starch, jalapeno peppers, organic garlic powder, organic mustard seed, sea salt, organic onion powder, avocado oil, citric acid
Other products containing Pumpkin Seed Butter
Pumpkin Seed Butter is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 36 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Plant Based Spicy Queso
Neighbours outside Primal Kitchen with screening scores in the same high band as Plant Based Spicy Queso (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Primal Kitchen; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0840224600170).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Plant Based Spicy Queso has a longer ingredient list than 87% of its Salsa category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Tapioca Starch first, then work through the remaining 18 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0840224600170: 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.