Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey
Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey by Food Lion, Food Town Stores Inc. has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Condiments / Sauces / Groceries
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. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey 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 Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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
Balsamic vinegar (wine vinegar, grape must, contains sulfites), water, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola), high fructose corn syrup, sugar, distilled vinegar, honey, red wine vinegar, contains less than 2% of lemon juice concentrate, spices, salt, caramel color, dried garlic, xanthan gum, citric acid, white wine, calcium disodium edta to protect flavor, tartaric acid.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0035826084149
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey's 4.4/5 average puts it in the safer 69%, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.4/5 rating on Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey?
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 4.4/5 average places Food lion, balsamic dressing, honey 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.