Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip
Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip by Food Lion, Food Town Stores Inc. has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.4 out of 5, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Pastries
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip, 8 of its 8 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.4 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
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- Titanium Dioxide - 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
Muffin [sugar, unbleached and bleached wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), eggs, water, soybean oil, chocolate chips [sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, lecithin (an emulsifier)], modified food starch, dextrose, vital wheat gluten, whey, salt, corn starch, titanium dioxide, guar gum, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate, mono and diglycerides, propylene glycol monoesters, sodium propionate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), datem, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60, beta carotene, artificial flavor, phosphoric acid], streusel [bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, margarine (partially hydrogenated soybean and palm oils, water, salt, mono and diglycerides, nonfat dry milk, lecithin, sodium benz
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip: 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: 3.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0035826090720
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.4/5, Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip sits behind 91% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.72 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Food lion, mini muffins, chocolate chip's 3.4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.