Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added
Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added by Butterball has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats
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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added have 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 Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3 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 Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
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
Poultry ingredients (turkey, mechanically separated turkey), water, salt, sugar, contains 2% or less of canola oil, sunflower oil, natural flavor, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
Product Details
- Brand
- Butterball
- Barcode
- 0022655305583
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3/5, Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3/5 rating on Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Butterball, turkey bacon, natural smoke flavor added's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is 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.