Chocolate chip brownies

Chocolate chip brownies: 4.1/5 ingredient safety

Chocolate chip brownies by Food Lion, Food Town Stores Inc. has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Cakes

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. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for Chocolate chip brownies 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 Chocolate chip brownies sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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

4.1
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.1 out of 5
Based on 8 tracked ingredients
8
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
7
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), corn syrup, sugar, palm oil with mono and diglycerides, water, cocoa (natural and processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, semi-sweet chocolate drops (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose, soy lecithin, vanillin [artificial flavor]), wheat flour, contains 2% or less of each of the following: corn syrup solids, sorbitol, soy lecithin, salt, egg whites, eggs, modified cornstarch, artificial flavor, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (soybean and/or cottonseed oil), leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, cornstarch, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), soybean oil, polysorbate 60, chocolate liquor, calcium phosphate, cellulose gum, sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, caramel color, agar, dextrose, locust bean gum, sodium hexametaphosphate, cornstarch, whey (milk), sorbic acid (to retard spoilage).

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chocolate chip brownies: 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0035826092748
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Chocolate chip brownies above or below average on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4.1/5, Chocolate chip brownies sits ahead of 58% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4.1/5 ingredient safety score mean?

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 4.1/5 average places Chocolate chip brownies 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.