Chunky Salsa
Chunky Salsa by Trader Joe's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Condiments / Sauces / Dips / Undefined
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Chunky Salsa has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Chunky Salsa sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
TOMATOES, TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), GREEN BELL PEPPERS, ONIONS, JALAPENO PEPPERS, (DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, GARLIC, CORIANDER, PAPRIKA, OREGANO.
Product Details
- Brand
- Trader Joe's
- Barcode
- 00204484
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Chunky Salsa rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Chunky Salsa sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chunky Salsa's 4/5 score be read?
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 average places Chunky Salsa 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.