Tropical Cole Slaw
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0879147008992 · Kowalski's Markets · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tropical Cole Slaw by Kowalski's Markets scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 34-component record, beginning with Dressing, Pineapple, Pineapple Juice. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 34 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
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.
47008992 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tropical Cole Slaw label screening desk
7 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Benzoate). Source sheet 47008992 · 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: Signature spreads salsa di parmigiano · Nearest score peer is Signature spreads salsa di parmigiano 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.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Tropical Cole Slaw scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Meals products
Tropical Cole Slaw lists 34 ingredients on its label
34 60th percentile a longer ingredient list than 60% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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
Dressing (pineapple (pineapple, pineapple juice), soybean oil, sugar, white vinegar, cilantro, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt, sugar), chili sauce (chili, salt, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfite as preservatives and xanthan gum), napa cabbage, wonton strips (enriched flour (wheat flour, enzymes, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (soybean and/or cottonseed oil), water, cornstarch, salt, sodium benzoate (preservative)), red pepper, and red onion.
Other products containing Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Bisulfite As Preservatives And Xanthan Gum
Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Bisulfite As Preservatives And Xanthan Gum 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 Tropical Cole Slaw
Neighbours outside Kowalski's Markets with screening scores in the same high band as Tropical Cole Slaw (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kowalski's Markets; 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).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (34 on 0879147008992).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
7 of 34 parsed ingredients on Tropical Cole Slaw match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0879147008992: 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.