Trader Joe's Nutri-Score C NOVA 4

Cilantro Dressing

Cilantro Dressing: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Cilantro Dressing by Trader Joe's has 2 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. Its Nutri-Score is C.

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

Condiments / Sauces / Salad dressings / Groceries

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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Cilantro Dressing have 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 Cilantro 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 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
C
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

Mayonnaise dressing (water, expeller pressed canola oil, modified food starch, distilled vinegar, soy protein, apple cider vinegar, non fat dry milk, lemon juice concentrate, onion powder, xanthan gum, vitamin e, natural flavor, mustard oil, paprika), non fat milk (fat free milk, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3), red wine vinegar (contains sulfites), cilantro, pasilla chile, garlic, cotija cheese (cultured pasteurized milk & skim milk, sea salt, enzymes), pumpkin seeds, (natural soybean oil [refined], salt, wheat flour, pepitas), xanthan gum.

Product Details

Barcode
00364201
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Trader Joe's

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Cilantro Dressing rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cilantro Dressing's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Cilantro Dressing?

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 Cilantro 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.