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Fareway crinkle cut fries

Fareway crinkle cut fries: 3/5 ingredient safety

Fareway crinkle cut fries by Fareway has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Fareway crinkle cut fries 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 Fareway crinkle cut fries sits nationally

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

3 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
0
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

potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following oils: canola, 30ydean, cottonseed, sunflower, corn). contains 2% or less of annatto extract (color), caramel color, salt sodium acid pyrophosphate added to naintain color. shield of qaality. packed for fareway stores, inc. boone, ia 50036 www.fareway.com fareway economical 000 stores cooking product of u.s.a keep

Product Details

Brand
Fareway
Barcode
0021333990660
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Fareway crinkle cut fries above or below average on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3/5, Fareway crinkle cut fries sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3/5 ingredient safety score mean?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Fareway crinkle cut fries's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is 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.