Ground, formed & sliced dried beef
Ground, formed & sliced dried beef by Hormel 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
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Ground, formed & sliced dried beef have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Ground, formed & sliced dried beef 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
Beef, salt, sugar, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600253956
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Ground, formed & sliced dried beef's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ground, formed & sliced dried beef's 3/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Ground, formed & sliced dried beef's 3/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Ground, formed & sliced dried beef'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.