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Chocolate milk Hershey kisses

Chocolate milk Hershey kisses: 4/5 ingredient safety

Chocolate milk Hershey kisses by Hershey has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

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

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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Chocolate milk Hershey kisses has 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 milk Hershey kisses sits nationally

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

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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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

milk chocolate (sugar, skim milk, cocoa butter, chocolate, milk fat, lecithin soy), pgpr, natural flavor), sugar, skim milk, palm oil, milk fat, contains 2% or less of: chocolate, cocoa, lecithin (soy), salt, pgpr, vanillin (artificial flavor). contains: milk, soy. the hershey company d abel®

Product Details

Brand
Hershey
Barcode
0034000952281
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Chocolate milk Hershey kisses above or below average on ingredient safety?

Chocolate milk Hershey kisses scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Chocolate milk Hershey kisses?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Chocolate milk Hershey kisses's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.