biscuits and gravy
biscuits and gravy by Mountain House has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
biscuits and gravy draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where biscuits and gravy sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
Buttermilk Biscuits: Enriched Bleached Flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin [B3], iron, thiamine mononitrate [B1], riboflavin [B2], folic acid [B9]), Shortening (palm oil, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60), Buttermilk Solids, Baking Powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), Sugar, Salt. Gravy Mix: Modified Corn Starch, Palm Oil, Buttermilk Powder, Nonfat Dry Milk, Corn Syrup Solids, Spices, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Salt, Sodium Caseinate, Disodium Inosinate and Guanylate, Dipotassium Phosphate. Pork Sausage Crumble: Pork, Sea Salt, Cane Sugar, Spice, Rosemary Extract, Chili Pepper.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for biscuits and gravy: 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Mountain House
- Barcode
- 0041133544870
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does biscuits and gravy rank on ingredient safety?
biscuits and gravy scores 4.3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 62% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should biscuits and gravy's 4.3/5 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 4.3/5 average places biscuits and gravy 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.