Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes by Idahoan has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Fruits and vegetables based foods / Vegetables based foods / Meals / Vegetables / Mixed vegetables / Garlic-mashed-potatoes
How This Score Is Built
Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes 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). 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients are 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 Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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
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
idaho potatoes (a blend of russet and red varieties), maltodextrin, parmesan cheese blend [(partially skimmed milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), sodium phosphate, salt, lactic acid], vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: coconut, soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, canola), salt, corn syrup solids, sugar, mono and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, modified food starch, hydrolyzed soy protein, nonfat dry milk, calcium stearoyl lactylate, natural and artificial flavor (including natural smoke and garlic flavor), parsley, garlic powder, spice, artificial color, sodium acid pyrophosphate (protect freshness), dipotassium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, sodium bisulfite (protect freshness), disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, citric acid (protect freshness), mixed tocopherols (protect freshness) and not more than 2,0% silicon dioxide added as an anti-caking agent,
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Idahoan
- Barcode
- 0029700001391
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- QFC
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Frequently asked questions
How does Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes's safety score compare to other products?
Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes scores 4.2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 60% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.2/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Baby Reds Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Mashed Potatoes's mapped ingredients average out to 4.2/5, 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.