Starkist Whole Grain Dijon Mustard Salad Wild Caught Tuna Creations, Whole Grain Dijon Mustard
StarKist Co. · Deli Salads · barcode 00080000521484
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. 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 allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of deli salads show what's typical. See levels
Fish advice for pregnancy, breastfeeding and children
On FDA and EPA's fish chart: Tuna, canned light (includes skipjack): Best Choice; Tuna, albacore/white tuna, canned and fresh/frozen: Good Choice; Tuna, yellowfin: Good Choice; Tuna, bigeye: Choice to Avoid.
FDA and EPA advise people who are or may become pregnant, people who are breastfeeding, and parents of children 1 to 11:
- Pregnant or breastfeeding: 2 to 3 servings a week from the Best Choices list, or 1 serving a week from the Good Choices list. A serving is 4 ounces.
- Children: 2 servings a week from the Best Choices list. A serving is about 1 ounce at ages 1 to 3, 2 ounces at 4 to 7, 3 ounces at 8 to 10, and 4 ounces at 11.
Source: FDA and EPA, Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). Mercury in fish FDA tested
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-06-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Titanium dioxide (E171)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
- EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
- 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
Typical for deli salads
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 14.3 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1 kg (2.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 4.9 kg (11 lb).One serving (1 pouch, 85 g, from the label):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% 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 Cabbage, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cabbage, raw: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.51, highest 14 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.8, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cabbage, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cabbage, raw: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.38, highest 6.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Mayonnaise, regular, bottled: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Potato, boiled (w/out peel): found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.38, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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)
LIGHT TUNA, WATER, VINEGAR, WATER CHESTNUTS, SUGAR, CELERY. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: MUSTARD FLOUR, MUSTARD SEED, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH [CORN], CORN MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, CELLULOSE GEL, EGG YOLK, CITRIC ACID, ONION POWDER, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, DIJON MUSTARD POWDER [DIJON MUSTARD (MUSTARD SEED, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, WHITE WINE, CITRIC ACID, TARTARIC ACID, SPICES), CORN MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, AND NATURAL FLAVOR], GUAR GUM, SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, CARRAGEENAN, SPICES, DEXTROSE, TURMERIC, VINEGAR POWDER (MALTODEXTRIN, WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.