Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked
Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked by Giant Eagle has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats
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 Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked, 2 of its 2 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 Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Sodium Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Pork cured with: water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
Product Details
- Brand
- Giant Eagle
- Barcode
- 0030034030513
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked's 3/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3/5 rating on Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Giant eagle, thick cut sliced bacon, hard wood smoked's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is 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.