Hamburger buns
Hamburger buns by Kroger has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.3 out of 5, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.82 points below 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 / Special breads / Hamburger buns
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Hamburger buns 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 Hamburger buns sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.3 Top 93% higher than 7% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
Enriched Wheat Flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Salt, Dough Conditioner (wheat flour, wheat gluten, hydrolyzed wheat gluten, enzymes, ascorbic acid [vitamin C], wheat starch), Dough Conditioner (wheat flour, wheat starch, enzymes, salt), Calcium Propionate, Egg Shade Color (water, propylene gycol, FD, C Colors [Yellow No. 5, Yellow No. 6, Red No. 40], citric acid, sodium benzoate [preservative], propylparaben [preservative]), Dough Conditioner (monoglycerides), Natural Butter Type Flavor (dextrose, corn starch, silicon dioxide [anti-caking agent], natural flavors), Shine Agent (water, pea protein, canola oil, dextrose, maltodextrins, starch). CONTAINS: WHEAT MAY CONTAIN: SESAME. Breaded Chicken Breast Fillet, with rib meat Containing: Up to 13% of a solution of water, seasoning [sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken broth powder, soybean oil, rice bran oil, nat
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Hamburger buns: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110051837
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Hamburger buns rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.3/5, Hamburger buns sits behind 93% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Hamburger buns's mapped ingredients average out to 3.3/5, 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.