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Is Taylor Farms Creamy Dill Pickle Salad Kit ultra-processed?

352 g Prepared salads Sold in Canada

Pack of Taylor Farms Creamy Dill Pickle 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:

  • 65 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Dill pickle ranch dressing (soybean oil, buttermilk, water, distilled vinegar, onion, pickles, nonfat dry milk, sugar, cucumber juice, egg yolks, salt, garlic, dehydrated onion, spices, xanthan gum, natural flavours, celery seed, mustard seed, red bell pepper), Green cabbage, Cauliflower, Red cabbage, Green leaf lettuce, Kale, Dill pickle crouton crumble (flour, sunflower oil (sunflower oil, rosemary extract (to maintain freshness)), dill seasoning (salt, vinegar (maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar), maltodextrin, garlic powder, malic acid, onion powder, spice, dillweed oil, rice hulls (to prevent caking)), palm oil, cane sugar, sea salt, yeast), Feta (feta (milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes), anti-caking (powdered cellulose)), Dill pickle seasoning (processed from (dehydrated onion), garlic, salt, dillweed, spice, natural flavour, with silicon dioxide added as an anti-caking agent)

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E415 Xanthan gum , E460 Cellulose , E460ii Powdered cellulose

As written on the pack

Dill pickle ranch dressing (soybean oil, cultured lowfat buttermilk, water, distilled vinegar, onion, pickles, nonfat dry milk, sugar, cucumber juice, egg yolks, salt, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, spices, xanthan gum, natural flavours, celery seed, mustard seed, red bell pepper), Green cabbage, Cauliflower, Red cabbage, Green leaf lettuce, Kale, Dill pickle crouton crumble (enriched flour, sunflower oil [sunflower oil, rosemary extract {to maintain freshness}], dill seasoning [salt, vinegar powder {maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar}, maltodextrin, garlic powder, malic acid, onion powder, spice, dillweed oil, rice hulls {to prevent caking}], palm oil*, cane sugar, sea salt, yeast), Feta (feta [pasteurized milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes], anti-caking [powdered cellulose]), Dill pickle seasoning (processed from: dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, salt, dillweed, spice, natural flavour, with silicon dioxide added as an anti-caking agent)

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 191st. 60% of the prepared salads 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0030223060567, last edited 16 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.