Kraft NOVA 4

Cesar With Bacon Dressing

Cesar With Bacon Dressing: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Cesar With Bacon Dressing by Kraft has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Cesar With Bacon Dressing draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Cesar With Bacon Dressing sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

4.5
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.5 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
4
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

soybean oil, water, vinegar, egg yolks, sugar, parmesan cheese (part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), romano cheese (made from cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), bacon bits (hickory smoked cured bacon [pork, water, salt, sugar, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite]), salt, contains less than 2% of: garlic puree, salt, bacon bits (hickory smoked cured bacon [pork, water, salt, sugar, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite]), whey, lemon juice concentrate, lactic acid, spices, propylene glycol alginate, corn syrup, xanthan gum, natural smoke flavor, yeast extract, polysorbate 60, anchovy paste (anchovies, salt, water), tamarind, sorbic acid and calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor)

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cesar With Bacon Dressing: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Brand
Kraft
Barcode
0021000085194
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Cesar With Bacon Dressing's safety score compare to other products?

Cesar With Bacon Dressing scores 4.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 71% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.5/5 average places Cesar With Bacon Dressing in the Low Risk tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.