Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage
Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.4 out of 5, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 3 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage, 8 of its 8 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.4 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Phosphates - 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
meat ingredients (pork, beef), mechanically separated turkey, water, corn syrup, contains 2% or less of modified ood starch, salt, dexrose autolyzed yeast, monosodium glutamate, flavorings, potassium and sodium lactate, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate ascorbic acid amin c), sodium nitrite. 06/ 0% 604 hot smoked sausage ingredients: meat ingredients (pork, beef), mechanically separated turkey, water, corn syrup, salt. modified food stap contains 2% or less of: dextrose, potassium and sodium lactate flavo odium glutamate, autolyzed yeast, sodium phosphates, sof diacetate, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), extract of paprika, sodium m jalapeño & cheddar smoked sausage ingredients: meat ingredients (pork, beef), mechanically separated turkey, water, pasteurized process chedda cheese (cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), water, cream, sodium phosphates, salt, vegetable culor vannat to and paprika blend sorb acid, powdered cellulose, natamycin], corn syrup, contains 2% or less
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage: 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: 3.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0027815300996
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage's 3.4/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage's 3.4/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.4/5 average places Bacon and cheddar smoked sausage in the Mixed Evidence 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.