Ranch Topping & Dressing

How it scored 38 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 23 listed

• 1 Vegetable Oil
  Generic term covering edible oils extracted from plant sources (soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, palm, etc.).
  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 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 4 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 5 Buttermilk
  Cultured buttermilk is fermented dairy from low-fat milk inoculated with lactic-acid bacteria.
  Low
• 6 Egg Yolk
  The yellow center of a chicken egg, rich in fat, protein, and lecithin.
  Low
• 7 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
• 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 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 10 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 11 Phosphoric Acid
  Phosphoric acid (E338, also FD&C food grade phosphoric acid) is a mineral acid (H3PO4). It is GRAS in the US under 21 CFR 182.1073 and liste…
  Moderate
• 12 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 13 Modified Starch
  Starch from corn, potato, tapioca, wheat, or rice that has been physically, enzymatically, or chemically modified (E1400-E1452) to improve c…
  Low
• 14 Monosodium Glutamate
  Monosodium glutamate (MSG, E621) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, a non-essential amino acid.
  Low
• 15 Artificial Flavouring
  Synthetic flavor compounds not derived from natural sources (spices, fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, fermentation products, etc.). Defined…
  Moderate
• 16 Disodium Phosphate
  Disodium phosphate (sodium hydrogen phosphate) — sodium salt of phosphoric acid.
  Moderate
• 17 Sorbic Acid
  Sorbic acid, an unsaturated fatty acid used as a preservative against mold, yeast, and certain bacteria.
  Low
• 18 Disodium Edta
  Disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate, a synthetic chelating (sequestering) agent that binds metal ions.
  Moderate
• 19 Disodium Inosinate
  Disodium inosinate (IMP), a flavor-enhancing nucleotide derived from meat, fish, or fermentation. Used synergistically with MSG.
  Low
• 20 Disodium Guanosine-5'-Monophosphate
  Disodium 5'-guanylate (E627); a sodium salt of guanosine monophosphate used as a flavor enhancer, often in combination with MSG.
  Low
• 21 Soya Bean
  Seed of Glycine max; legume rich in protein and oil.
  Low
• 22 Canola
  Canola (Brassica napus) — typically refers to canola oil, a low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil.
  Low
• 23 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate