Santa fe style salad
Open Food Facts label for barcode 4099100100679 · Safeway Farms · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Santa fe style salad by Safeway Farms scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 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 67-component record, beginning with Iceberg Lettuce, Lite Salsa Ranch, Non Fat Buttermilk. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 67 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
00100679 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Santa fe style salad label screening desk
13 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 00100679 · 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: Chef salad · Nearest score peer is Chef salad 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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Santa fe style salad scores 1.4 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Santa fe style salad lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 95th percentile a longer ingredient list than 95% of the 11,283 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 12 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 83 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 127 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 209 products (2%)
- 8–10
- 312 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 315 products (3%)
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- 412 products (4%)
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- 477 products (4%)
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- 542 products (5%)
- 18–20
- 552 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 545 products (5%)
- 22–24
- 550 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
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- 552 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 574 products (5%)
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- 517 products (5%)
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- 466 products (4%)
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- 451 products (4%)
- 36–38
- 443 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
iceberg lettuce, lite salsa ranch (non fat buttermilk [whey, water, skim milk powder, corn starch, tapioca starch, carrageenan, locust bean gum, culture], tomatoes, canola oil, water, tomato paste, onion, apple cider vinegar, sugar, distilled vinegar, less than 2% of sält, egg yolk, green onion, jalapeno peppers, modified corn starch, cultured dextrose, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, spices, cultured skim milk powder, dried bell peppers , dried garlic, dried onion, mustard flour, guar gum, acacia gum, chili powder [spices, salt, paprika, dried garlic]), chili lime chicken (chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, less than 2% brown sugar, salt, rice starch, spices tincluding paprika), vinegar, chili pepper, natural flavor, lime oil), fire roasted corn, 4 cheese mexican blend (monterey jack and queso quesadilla cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture , salt, enzymes), asadero and cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto {vegetable color}], potato starch and powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], natamycin [a natural mold inhibitor]), tortilla strips (white corn, yellow corn, blue corn, sunflower oil or corn oil, red beet powder, sea salt, water, trace of lime), contains, egg, milk
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Santa fe style salad
Neighbours outside Safeway Farms with screening scores in the same high band as Santa fe style salad (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Safeway Farms; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 67 on 4099100100679).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (67 on 4099100100679).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Santa fe style salad's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 67-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
- Compare Santa fe style salad'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 4099100100679: 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.