Betty Crocker Hershey
Betty Crocker Hershey by Hershey's, General Mills has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Betty Crocker Hershey has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Betty Crocker Hershey sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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
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Product Details
- Brand
- Hershey's, General Mills
- Barcode
- 0001600043776
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Betty Crocker Hershey's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Betty Crocker Hershey's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 5/5 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 5/5 average places Betty Crocker Hershey in the Generally Safe 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.