Thick & Chunky Salsa
Thick & Chunky Salsa by Food Lion has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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How This Score Is Built
Thick & Chunky Salsa 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). 2 of its 2 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 Thick & Chunky Salsa sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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
TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), DICED TOMATOES IN TOMATO JUICE, GREEN BELL PEPPERS, ONIONS, VINEGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, JALAPENO PEPPERS, DEHYDRATED ONION, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CITRIC ACID
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826098498
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Thick & Chunky Salsa rank on ingredient safety?
Thick & Chunky Salsa scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Thick & Chunky Salsa's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe 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.