Tops Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Garlic Breadsticks

Garlic Breadsticks: 4.3/5 ingredient safety

Garlic Breadsticks by Tops has 7 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

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Breads

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 Garlic Breadsticks, 7 of its 7 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 Garlic Breadsticks 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

4.3
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.3 out of 5
Based on 7 tracked ingredients
7
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
7
Low Risk / Safe
D
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

Bread: enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid, water, yeast, sugar, soybean oil, salt, whey powder, mono and diglycerides, citric acid, yeast, calcium propionate (preservative), microbial enzymes, ascorbic acid. spread: soybean oil, water, parmesan cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, bacterial, culture, lipase, calcium chloride, mocrobial enzyme, corn starch and/or cellulose (as an anticaking agent)), dehydrated garlic, palm oil, whey powder, salt, modified corn starch, distilled vegetable monoglyceride,natural and artificial flavors, dehydrated parsley, citric acid, modified tapioca starch, xanthan gum, beta carotene (color).

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Garlic Breadsticks: 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.

Product Details

Brand
Tops
Barcode
0007078405686
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Garlic Breadsticks rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Garlic Breadsticks's 4.3/5 average puts it in the safer 62%, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Garlic Breadsticks's 4.3/5 score be read?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Garlic Breadsticks's 4.3/5 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.