Golden Apple Chips
Golden Apple Chips by Welch's, Healthy Food Brands Llc has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 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 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
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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 Golden Apple Chips, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Golden Apple Chips sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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 Sulphite - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
APPLES, SODIUM SULPHITE (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS).
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0000790440024
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Golden Apple Chips above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Golden Apple Chips's 2/5 average puts it in the lower 100%, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Golden Apple Chips?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Golden Apple Chips's mapped ingredients average out to 2/5, which is the Caution 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.