Zesty Blend Original
Zesty Blend Original by Kroger 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.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
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How This Score Is Built
Zesty Blend Original 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 Zesty Blend Original 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
ONION*, SPICES (BLACK PEPPER, PARSLEY, CELERY SEED, BASIL, BAY, MARJORAM, OREGANO, SAVORY, THYME, CAYENNE PEPPER, CORIANDER, CUMIN, MUSTARD, ROSEMARY), GARLIC*, CARROT*, ORANGE PEEL*, TOMATO*, LEMON JUICE, POWDER, CITRIC ACID, LEMON OIL. LESS THAN 2% SOYBEAN OIL ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110668660
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Zesty Blend Original rank on ingredient safety?
Zesty Blend Original scores 4.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 71% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 Zesty Blend Original 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.