Apple Juice
Apple Juice by Kroger has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
Plant-based foods and beverages / Beverages / Plant-based beverages / Fruit-based beverages / Juices and nectars / Fruit juices / Unsweetened beverages / Apple juices
How This Score Is Built
Apple Juice draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Apple Juice sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
Apple juice from concentrate (water, apple juice concentrate), ascorbic acid.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0001110021243
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
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Frequently asked questions
How does Apple Juice's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Apple Juice sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Apple Juice's 4/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Apple Juice's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.