Baking Soda
Baking Soda by Bob's Red Mill 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. Its Nutri-Score is NOT-APPLICABLE.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
Cooking helpers / Food additives / Anticaking agents / Bicarbonates of soda
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 Baking Soda, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Baking Soda 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
sodium bicarbonate,
Product Details
- Brand
- Bob's Red Mill
- Barcode
- 0039978003911
- Nutri-Score
- Grade NOT-APPLICABLE
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States,World
- Stores
- Common Ground
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Frequently asked questions
Is Baking Soda above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Baking Soda 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.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 4/5 average places Baking Soda in 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.