French Style Dressing with Honey
French Style Dressing with Honey by Hidden Valley has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Condiments / Sauces / Groceries
How This Score Is Built
French Style Dressing with Honey 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). 3 of its 3 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 French Style Dressing with Honey sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
Water, sugar, corn syrup* *, distilled vinegar, tomato paste, honey, salt, contains less than 2% of food starch-modified, garlic* *, onion* *, spices, natural flavor, hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil+, aquaresin paprika+, xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (as preservatives), calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor, celery seed, dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent added.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for French Style Dressing with 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hidden Valley
- Barcode
- 0026700683558
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is French Style Dressing with Honey above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, French Style Dressing with Honey's 4.3/5 average puts it in the safer 62%, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. French Style Dressing with Honey's mapped ingredients average out to 4.3/5, 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.