Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked
Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked by Hormel has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.7 out of 5, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
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 Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked, 3 of its 3 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 Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.7 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Sodium Nitrate - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Full Ingredients List
Cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked: 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: 2.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600071931
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked's 2.7/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked's 2.7/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Black Label Bacon, Applewood Smoked's 2.7/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.