Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style
Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style by Usinger's 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
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Meats and their products / Meats
How This Score Is Built
Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style 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 Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style 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 Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Cured With: Water, Salt, Sodium Phosphates, Sugar, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style: 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
- Usinger's
- Barcode
- 0007039050099
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States,World
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 2.7/5, Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style'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; Canadian Style Bacon, Canadian Style'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.