Kroger NOVA 4

Honey Wheat Bread

Honey Wheat Bread: 4/5 ingredient safety

Honey Wheat Bread by Kroger 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

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 Honey Wheat Bread, 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 Honey Wheat Bread 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

UNPLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, HONEY, WHEAT GLUTEN, SUGAR, WHEAT BRAN, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: YEAST, SALT, CULTURED WHEAT FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL, DOUGH 70 SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM STEAROYL CONDITIONERS (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: % Daily Value* LACTYLATE, MONOGLYCERIDES, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM PEROXIDE, CALCIUM IODATE, DATEM, ETHOXYLATED MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, ENZYMES, ASCORBIC ACID), CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SOY LECITHIN. 1375-030424 1% urated Fat 0g 0% ans Fat 0g lesterol Omg 0% CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY. dum 110mg 5% MAY CONTAIN: SESAME. tal Carbohydrate 13g 5%

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110143907
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Kroger

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Honey Wheat Bread rank on ingredient safety?

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

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Honey Wheat Bread?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Honey Wheat Bread'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.