Chi-Chi's Nutri-Score B NOVA 3

Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium

Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium: 4/5 ingredient safety

Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium by Chi-Chi's has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

Condiments / Sauces / Dips / Groceries

How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium, 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
B
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

Tomatoes (contains tomato juice, citric acid, calcium chloride), jalapeno peppers, water, onions, tomato paste, contains 2% or less of salt, citric acid, spices, garlic powder, onion powder, sodium benzoate (preservative), white distilled vinegar.

Product Details

Barcode
0037600459419
Nutri-Score
Grade B
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Restaurant Style Salsa, Medium's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.