Ready Pac Gourmet Baby Kale Apple Harvest Salad

Ready Pac Produce, Inc. · Pickles, Olives, Peppers & Relishes · barcode 00077745296357

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Azodicarbonamide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of pickles, olives, peppers & relishes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-08-31). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.

Azodicarbonamide

EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) Source
Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source

DATEM (E472e)

EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472e. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for pickles, olives, peppers & relishes

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Cadmium: typically 0.55 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 27 kg (60 lb) a day; an adult at more than 100 kg.
One serving (1 container, 227 g, from the label):
under 1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 1.03 ppb (FDA, 39 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).
One serving (1 container, 227 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 4.6, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 1.13, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Olives, black, pitted: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.03, highest 3.1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Black olives: found in 4 of 19 samples, average 0.95, highest 8 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Dill cucumber pickles: found in 17 of 20 samples, average 3.19, highest 13 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

LETTUCE MIX (BABY KALE, BABY LETTUCES [LOLLO ROSSA, TANGO, RED AND GREEN OAK, RED AND GREEN ROMAINE, RED LEAF, PARELLA], BABY GREENS [TATSOI, MIZUNA, RED AND GREEN CHARD, RED AND GREEN MUSTARD, FRISEE], BABY SPINACH, RADICCHIO), LETTUCE MIX MAY VARY BY SEASON, APPLE VINAIGRETTE (WATER, SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA OIL], WHITE BALSAMIC VINEGAR, APPLE ESSENCE, MALTODEXTRIN, APPLE CONCENTRATE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, XANTHAN GUM, MALIC ACID), APPLES (CALCIUM ASCORBATE [ADDED TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS AND COLOR]), GORGONZOLA CHEESE (GORGONZOLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING], NATAMYCIN [A PRESERVATIVE]), FLAT BREAD TRIANGLES (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, ASCORBIC ACID], WATER, PALM OIL, SEA SALT, LIQUID SOURDOUGH, PALM OIL SHORTENING, WHEAT GLUTEN, EVAPORATED CANE SYRUP, YEAST, DOUGH CONDITIONER [DL-ACETYL TARTARIC {DATEM}, DEXTROSE, SOYBEAN OIL, L-CYSTEINE, AZODICARBONAMIDE {ADA}], ASCORBIC ACID, NATURAL ENZYME), CANDIED WALNUTS (WALNUTS, SUGAR, HONEY, SALT, ROASTED IN COTTONSEED AND/OR PEANUT OIL), DRIED CRANBERRIES (CRANBERRIES, SUGAR, SUNFLOWER OIL).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.

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