Martin's NOVA 4

Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips

Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips: 5/5 ingredient safety

Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips by Martin's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips 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 Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips sits nationally

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

5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 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

potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: cottonseed, corn, sunflower, soybean), honey barbecue seasoning [sugar, torula yeast, dehydrated onion, dehydrated dehydrated tomato, fructose, organic honey powder (organic maltodextrin, organic honey), extractives of paprika, molas - ses, brown sugar, dehydrated garlic, citric acid, natural flavors), salt, this is a gluten free product, chili pepper,

Product Details

Barcode
0033049000779
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips above or below average on ingredient safety?

Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips's 5/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Honey Bar-B-Q crunchy potato chips's mapped ingredients average out to 5/5, which is the Generally Safe 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.