Big Y, Big Y Foods Inc. Nutri-Score C NOVA 4

Big y, pizza bites, cheese

Big y, pizza bites, cheese: 4/5 ingredient safety

Big y, pizza bites, cheese by Big Y, Big Y Foods Inc. 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 C.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Meals / Pizzas pies and quiches / Pizzas

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 Big y, pizza bites, cheese 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 Big y, pizza bites, cheese 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Wrapper: enriched malted wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, contains 2% or less of salt, sugar, soybean oil, sweet whey. filling: sauce (water, tomato paste, seasoning blend (cornstarch-modified, salt, sugar, contains 2% or less of xanthan gum, spices, soybean oil, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, paprika, citric acid, beet powder (color), guar gum, soy flour, parmesan cheese {cultured part-skim milk, salt, enzymes}]), restricted melt cheese blend (mozzarella cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], imitation cheese [water, palm shortening, modified food starch, whey powder, sodium aluminum phosphate, salt, gum blend {xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum}, citric acid, sorbic acid, disodium phosphate, sodium citrate, anti-caking blend {corn starch, calcium sulfate}]), textured soy flour, contains 2% or less of methylcellulose. fried in vegetable oil.

Product Details

Barcode
0018894316398
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Big y, pizza bites, cheese above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Big y, pizza bites, cheese's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Big y, pizza bites, cheese's 4/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Big y, pizza bites, cheese's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.