Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing

How it scored 65 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 26 listed

• 1 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 2 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 3 Apple Cider Vinegar
  Vinegar produced by fermenting apple juice; principal acid is acetic acid.
  Safe
• 4 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 5 Egg Yolk
  The yellow center of a chicken egg, rich in fat, protein, and lecithin.
  Low
• 6 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 7 Jalapeno Pepper
  Jalapeño is a medium-sized chili pepper (Capsicum annuum).
  Safe
• 8 Garlic Puree
  Whole garlic cloves (Allium sativum) crushed or blended into a paste; may be plain or in oil.
  Safe
• 9 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 10 Lime Juice Concentrate
  Lime juice with water removed, increasing the concentration of citric acid, sugars, and flavor compounds.
  Safe
• 11 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 12 Lactic Acid
  Organic acid (E270) naturally produced by lactic acid bacteria during fermentation; also produced industrially.
  Low
• 13 Vegetable Juice
  Liquid extracted from vegetables, alone or in blends; commonly tomato-based with carrot, celery, beet, or others.
  Safe
• 14 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 15 Coriander Leaf
  Fresh leaves of Coriandrum sativum (also called cilantro).
  Safe
• 16 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 17 Potassium Sorbate
  Potassium salt of sorbic acid, a short-chain unsaturated fatty acid.
  Low
• 18 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 19 Tocopherol-Rich Extract
  Tocopherol-rich extract — a natural extract of mixed tocopherols (vitamin E forms) from vegetable oils, used as a natural antioxidant.
  Low
• 20 Acetic Acid
  Acetic acid (E260), the principal acid in vinegar.
  Safe
• 21 Calcium Chloride
  Calcium chloride (E509) is an inorganic salt of calcium and chlorine.
  Low
• 22 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 23 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 24 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 25 Antioxidant
  Functional class label for substances added to retard oxidative rancidity (e.g., tocopherols, ascorbic acid, BHA, BHT, TBHQ, rosemary extrac…
  Low
• 26 Vitamin E
  Fat-soluble vitamin (alpha-tocopherol and related tocopherols/tocotrienols); essential nutrient and antioxidant.
  Low