Goldfish crackers

Goldfish crackers: 4/5 ingredient safety

Goldfish crackers by Pepperidge Farm has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Biscuits and crackers / Crackers (Appetizers)

How This Score Is Built

Goldfish crackers 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 Goldfish crackers sits nationally

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

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
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

about 28 servings per container serving size 55 pieces (30g) amount per serving calories go % daily value* total fat 5g saturated fat 1g %9 ba trans fat 0g polyunsaturated fat 1g monounsaturated fat 2.5g cholesterol 10mg 3% sodium 220mg total carbohydrate 20g %0% %% dietary fiber <1g total sugars 0g includes og added sugars %0 protein 3g vitamin d omcg 0% • calcium 30mg 2% moana 6% • potassium 50mg 0% thiamin 0.14mg 10% • riboflavin 0.2mg 15% iron 1.2mg niacin 2.3mg 15% • folate 75mcg dfe 20% (45mcg folic acid) * the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. made with smiles and enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheddar cheese ([cultured milk, salt, enzymes], annatto), vegetable oils (canola, sunflower and/or soybean), contains 2% or less of: salt, yeast, sugar, autolýzed yeast extract, beet juice concentr

Product Details

Barcode
0014100052784
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Goldfish crackers rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Goldfish crackers's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Goldfish crackers's 4/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Goldfish crackers's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.