Cashew Milk
Cashew Milk by Silk has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.7 out of 5, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.
- Safety score 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Beverages and beverages preparations / Plant-based foods and beverages / Beverages / Plant-based foods / Dairy substitutes / Milk substitutes / Nuts and their products / Plant-based beverages / Plant-based milk alter
How This Score Is Built
Cashew Milk 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 Cashew Milk sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.7 Top 18% higher than 82% 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
cashewmilk (filtered water, cashews), almond butter, vitamin and mineral blend (calcium carbonate, vitamin e acetate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d2), sea salt, natural flavor, sunflower lecithin, locust bean gum, gellan gum, ascorbic acid,
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cashew Milk: 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: 4.7/5.
- Potato Bacon Breakfast Δ 0.0 pts · The Kwikery 4.7/511 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Cake Bites Δ 0.0 pts · Golden Grains 4.7/57 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Silk
- Barcode
- 0025293002753
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States,World
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Cashew Milk rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cashew Milk's 4.7/5 average puts it in the safer 82%, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Cashew Milk's 4.7/5 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 4.7/5 average places Cashew Milk in the Generally Safe 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.