Zaaschila Hot Guacamole & Serrano Salsa, Hot Guacamole & Serrano

GS1 Mexico · Dips & Salsa · barcode 00636817902659

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of dips & salsa show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). 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.
California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).
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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue).

Titanium dioxide (E171)

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

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source

Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)

EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for dips & salsa

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

Cadmium: typically 19 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).
One serving (30 grm, 30 g, from the label):
4% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.9 kg (22 lb).
One serving (30 grm, 30 g, from the label):
1% 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 Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 19.7, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Tomato salsa, bottled: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 4.93, highest 19 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)

WATER, SERRANO PEPPER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOY BEAN AND/OR CANOLA OIL), AVOCADO PULP (AVOCADO, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, ASCORBIC ACID, CITRIC ACID), SALT, SUGAR, MODIFIED COM STARCH, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, HABANERO PEPPER, ACETIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM, LEMON JUICE*, GARLIC, GLYCERYL MONOESTEARATE (EMULSIFIER), ONION*, COREANDER*, SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVES), CONDIMENTS AND SPICES, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FLAVOR), ARTIFICIAL COLORS: FD&C YELLOW NO. 5 AND FD&C BLUE NO. 1.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.

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