Idahoan NOVA 4

Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes by Idahoan has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Purées / Potato preparations / Mashed potatoes

How This Score Is Built

Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes sits nationally

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

4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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

4.5
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
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

iidahoⓡ potatoes, cheddar/parmesan/blue/romano cheeses (pasteurized milk, cheese cultur enzymes), salt, vegetable oil (coconut, sunflower, soybean), whey, maltodextrin, sugar, nonfat dry milk, but powder, monoglycerides, calcium stearoyl lactylate, natural flavors, yeast extract, paprika extract annatto extract (color). freshness preserved by sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite, citric acid, am tocopherols. contains: milk gluten free

Product Details

Brand
Idahoan
Barcode
0029700341459
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes's 4.5/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is 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.