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Is Member's Mark Southwest Chopped Salad Kit ultra-processed?

Lettuces Sold in the United States

Pack of Member's Mark Southwest Chopped Salad Kit

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 80 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

romaine lettuce, southwest ranch dressing (water, vegetable oil (canola, soybean oil), buttermilk powder, egg yolk, less than 2% of (vinegar), seasoning blend (salt, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, dried onion, dried garlic, autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavor, spice, parsley, guar gum), sugar, skim milk powder, phosphoric acid, salt, dried onion, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), spice, vinegar, chili (spices, salt, garlic, dried garlic, spices, acacia gum, natural flavor, mustard, chipotle pepper)), green cabbage, red cabbage, salsa seasoned corn sticks (corn masa flour, canola, soybean oil, salsa seasoning (maltodextrin, salt, tomato, dextrose, onion, green bell pepper, spices, torula yeast, annatto, natural flavors)), kale, carrot, taco cheese blend (milk, cheese culture, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), less than 2% of (annatto (color)), enzymes, maltodextrin, natural flavor, potato dextrose (color), potato flour, salt, spice, sugar), corn

Additives: E160b Annatto , E338 Phosphoric acid , E412 Guar gum , E414 Acacia gum , E460 Cellulose , E460ii Powdered cellulose

As written on the pack

romaine lettuce, southwest ranch dressing (water, vegetable oil [canola and/or soybean oil], buttermilk powder, egg yolk, less than 2% of: vinegar, seasoning blend [salt, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, dried onion, dried garlic, autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavor, spice, parsley, guar gum], sugar, cultured skim milk powder, phosphoric acid, salt, dried onion, soy sauce [water, wheat, soybeans, salt], spice, vinegar, chili powder [spices, salt, garlic, dried garlic, spices, acacia gum, natural flavor, ground mustard, dried chipotle pepper]), green cabbage, red cabbage, salsa seasoned corn sticks (corn masa flour, canola and/or soybean oil, salsa seasoning [maltodextrin, salt, tomato powder, dextrose, onion powder, green bell pepper powder, spices, torula yeast, annatto extract, natural flavors]), kale, carrot, taco cheese blend (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], less than 2% of: annatto [color], enzymes, maltodextrin, natural flavor, potato dextrose [color], potato flour, salt, spice, sugar), corn

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
8 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 22 lettuces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 41% of the lettuces here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 22 lettuces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0193968113636, last edited 1 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.