Corned Beef Hash
Corned Beef Hash by Formal has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 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 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Meats and their products / Beef and its products / Prepared meats / Meals with meat / Beef dishes / Prepared beef meats / Stews / Corned beef
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 Corned Beef Hash 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 Corned Beef Hash sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
beef, rehydrated potatoes, water, contains 2% or less of salt, sugar, flavoring, spices, sodium nitrite,
Product Details
- Brand
- Formal
- Barcode
- 0037600807449
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- Germany,Ireland,United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Corned Beef Hash above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Corned Beef Hash's 2/5 average puts it in the lower 100%, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Corned Beef Hash?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Corned Beef Hash's mapped ingredients average out to 2/5, which is the Caution 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.