Creamy Caesar Dressing

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Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 32 listed

• 1 Soya Oil
  Vegetable oil extracted from soybeans (Glycine max), typically refined, bleached, and deodorized. High in polyunsaturated fats, particularly…
  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 Distilled Vinegar
  Dilute (~5%) acetic acid solution produced by fermentation and distillation.
  Safe
• 4 Egg Yolk
  The yellow center of a chicken egg, rich in fat, protein, and lecithin.
  Low
• 5 Parmigiano Reggiano
  Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard, granular Italian cheese with PDO protection.
  Low
• 6 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 7 Olive Oil
  Oil pressed from olives (Olea europaea).
  Safe
• 8 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 9 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 10 Concentrated Lemon Juice
  Lemon juice with water removed by evaporation.
  Safe
• 11 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 12 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
• 13 Egg
  Whole avian (typically chicken) egg consisting of yolk, white, and shell membrane.
  Safe
• 14 Titanium Dioxide
  Titanium dioxide (E171) is an inorganic white pigment.
  Moderate
• 15 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  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 Propane-1‚2-Diol Alginate
  Propane-1,2-diol alginate (propylene glycol alginate, PGA), a chemically modified alginate ester used as a stabilizer/emulsifier.
  Low
• 19 Molasses
  Thick, dark syrup byproduct of sugar refining from cane or sugar beet.
  Low
• 20 Lactic Acid
  Organic acid (E270) naturally produced by lactic acid bacteria during fermentation; also produced industrially.
  Low
• 21 Corn Syrup
  A sweet, nutritive saccharide mixture produced from corn starch hydrolysate. The high-fructose form (HFCS) contains approximately 42% or 55%…
  Moderate
• 22 Caramel
  Caramel: a dark colorant made by controlled heat treatment of food-grade carbohydrates; four classes (E150a-d) differ by manufacturing react…
  Moderate
• 23 Calcium Disodium Ethylenediaminetetraacetate
  Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (calcium disodium EDTA), a chelating agent that binds metal ions.
  Moderate
• 24 Tamarind
  The pulp of Tamarindus indica fruit pods, with a sweet-sour flavor.
  Safe
• 25 Celery Seed
  Dried seeds of celery (Apium graveolens) used as a spice.
  Low
• 26 Anchovy
  Small saltwater forage fish (Engraulidae family), typically cured in salt or oil.
  Low
• 27 Maltodextrin
  A short-chain glucose polymer (3–20 glucose units, DE 3–20) produced by partial enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn, potato, rice, or wheat…
  Moderate
• 28 Pasteurized Semi-Skimmed Milk
  Cow's milk that has been pasteurized and reduced to ~1.5–1.8% milk fat (semi-skimmed/reduced-fat).
  Low
• 29 Lactic Ferments
  Live lactic-acid-producing bacterial cultures (typically Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Leuconostoc) added to milk …
  Low
• 30 Enzyme
  Industrial food enzyme — protein catalysts derived from plants, animals, or microorganisms (often via fermentation), added to food to perfor…
  Low
• 31 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 32 Preservative
  Generic umbrella term for unspecified preservative additive(s).
  Low