Safe

Seasoned Kale Chips

by Trader Joe's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 38125713 · Trader Joe's · Chips. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 38125713

The verdict

Seasoned Kale Chips by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 11 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 11-component label led by Kale, Cashews, Tahini; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 11 analyzed
Group 3
Processed foods
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

85/100

Grade A

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 3

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.

38125713 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Seasoned Kale Chips label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-FOCUSED 11 ing. REG-SPARSE 9% reg. NOVA-G3 G3 processed NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-LONG Len top 76% LEAD-FLAG Sea salt PHOTO-FINISH Jalapeno & Cheese · ±0 BOOK-OFF …125713 · July 2026

1 of 11 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sea salt). Source sheet 38125713 · 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: Jalapeno & Cheese Elk Sticks · Nearest score peer is Jalapeno & Cheese Elk Sticks 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 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.

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

1. Seasoned Kale Chips: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Seasoned Kale Chips100/1002. Jalapeno & Cheese Elk Sticks: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Jalapeno & Cheese Elk Sti…100/1003. Gruyère: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Gruyère100/1004. Smoked Cheddar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Smoked Cheddar100/1005. Village bread and bagel: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Village bread and bagel100/100
High-band neighbours for Seasoned Kale Chips (100/100) outside Trader Joe's.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Seasoned Kale Chips
100/100
Jalapeno & Cheese Elk Sticks
100/100
Gruyère
100/100
Smoked Cheddar
100/100
Village bread and bagel
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 91 products we've scored in the Chips category, the average safety score is 94.9/100. Seasoned Kale Chips scores 5.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 94.9/100), 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 Chips products

Seasoned Kale Chips lists 11 ingredients on its label

11 24th percentile a longer ingredient list than 24% of the 68 products we track

2–4: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 4–6: 3 products (4%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7 products (10%). Below this entry. 8–10: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5 products (7%). This entry sits in this band. 12–14: 4 products (6%). Above this entry. 14–16: 6 products (9%). Above this entry. 16–18: 8 products (12%). Above this entry. 18–20: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 20–22: 5 products (7%). Above this entry. 22–24: 5 products (7%). Above this entry. 24–26: 3 products (4%). Above this entry. 26–28: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 4 products (6%). Above this entry. 30–32: 3 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 5 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 2 42 every published Chips product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

68 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 11 (24th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

2–4
2 products (3%)
4–6
3 products (4%)
6–8
7 products (10%)
8–10
2 products (3%)
10–12
5 products (7%)
12–14
4 products (6%)
14–16
6 products (9%)
16–18
8 products (12%)
18–20
2 products (3%)
20–22
5 products (7%)
22–24
5 products (7%)
24–26
3 products (4%)
26–28
2 products (3%)
28–30
4 products (6%)
30–32
3 products (4%)
34–36
1 products (1%)
38–40
1 products (1%)
40 and above
5 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 68 Chips products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

KALE, CASHEWS, TAHINI (GROUND SESAME SEED), CARROT POWDER, ONION POWDER, CANE SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, MUSTARD POWDER, SEA SALT, GARLIC POWDER

Categories

Chips

High-score cross-brand comparables for Seasoned Kale Chips

Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Seasoned Kale Chips (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sea salt is the first flagged ingredient selected from Seasoned Kale Chips's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 11-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sea salt. Open Sea salt
  • Compare Seasoned Kale Chips's 0 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 38125713: 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.