Food lion, potato chips, mesquite barbecue
Food lion, potato chips, mesquite barbecue 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
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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, potato chips, mesquite barbecue 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, potato chips, mesquite barbecue 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
Potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, sunflower, or canola oil), sugar, fructose, salt, molasses, corn maltodextrin, maple sugar, sodium diacetate, tomato powder, yeast extract, onion powder, spice, worcestershire sauce powder (worcestershire sauce [vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, salt, caramel color, garlic, sugar, spices, tamarind, natural flavor], maltodextrin, sulfites), citric acid, paprika oleoresin (paprika extract, soybean oil), garlic powder, malic acid, smoke flavoring, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, and turmeric (color).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Food lion, potato chips, mesquite barbecue: 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
- 0035826103246
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Food lion, potato chips, mesquite barbecue's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.4/5, Food lion, potato chips, mesquite barbecue sits ahead of 69% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.4/5 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, potato chips, mesquite barbecue's 4.4/5 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.