Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon
Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon by Spartan has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes / Prepared salads / Pasta salads / Salads
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 Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon, 4 of its 4 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 Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
Enriched pasta (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), maltodextrin (from corn), imitation bacon (textured soy flour, partially hydrogenated soybean oil [with bht as an antioxidant], salt, yeast, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, red 3), salt, whey (from milk), monosodium glutamate, natural and artificial flavors (natural smoke flavor), garlic*, sugar, onion*, peas*, carrot*, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, spice, caramel (color), refined soybean oil, hydrolyzed soy protein, vinegar, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, hydrolyzed corn protein. *dried
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Spartan
- Barcode
- 0011213071763
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon's safety score compare to other products?
Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon's 3.8/5 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 3.8/5 average places Spartan, pasta salad, ranch & bacon 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.