Product Insight: Armour, lunchmakers, pizza, pepperoni
Armour, lunchmakers, pizza, pepperoni by Armour, Armour-Eckrich Meats Llc is tracked in PlainIngredients with 12 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.1 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is C, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, 1 ingredient is currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 11 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
- Sodium Nitrite — Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Hawaiian punch fruit juicy red: water, high fructose corn syrup and less than 2% of: concentrated juices (apple, clarified pineapple, passionfruit, orange), fruit purees (apricot, papaya, guava), ascorbic acid (vitamin c), citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, pectin, acacia gum, ester gum, red 40, blue 1, sucralose. pizza crust: enriched bleached wheat flour (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, vegetable shortening (interesterified soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil), contains 2% or less of yeast, sugar, salt, calcium propionate, monoglycerides, vegetable gums (corn starch, guar gum, xanthan gum). nestle crunch bars: milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, milkfat, lactose, soy lecithin, vanillin - an artificial flavor), crisped rice (rice flour, sugar, barley malt, salt). low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese: cultured pasteurized part-skim milk, salt, enzymes, potato starch and powdered cellulose (to prevent ca
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0027815004481
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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