Earth's Best Nutri-Score NOT-APPLICABLE NOVA 1

Bananas

Bananas: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Bananas by Earth's Best has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is NOT-APPLICABLE.

  • Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 1

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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 Bananas, 2 of its 2 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 Bananas sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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

4.5
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
NOT-APPLICABLE
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

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

ORGANIC BANANA PUREE, WATER, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID

Product Details

Barcode
0023923200173
Nutri-Score
Grade NOT-APPLICABLE
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States,World

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Bananas rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Bananas's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Bananas's 4.5/5 score be read?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Bananas's 4.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.