Product Insight: Hormel, compleats, meatloaf & gravy with mashed potatoes
Hormel, compleats, meatloaf & gravy with mashed potatoes by Hormel is tracked in PlainIngredients with 2 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 3 out of 5 — a Mixed-Evidence tier where the regulatory picture is still evolving. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 0 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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
Rehydrated potatoes (water, potatoes, mono - and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid), beef meatloaf (beef, water, bread crumbs [bleached wheat flour, dextrose, contains 2% or less of salt, yeast], dried egg whites, salt, roast flavor [maltodextrin, yeast extract, soy sauce {soybeans, wheat, salt}, tapioca maltodextrin, chicken fat, flavor], flavoring, spices, dehydrated parsley, natural flavor [natural flavoring {contains yeast autolyzate}, dextrin, maltodextrin, natural smoke flavor]), water, contains 2% or less of corn flour, modified cornstarch, beef base (roasted beef and dried beef, yeast extract, beef broth, cane sugar, malted barley extract, dried onion, salt, natural flavor, potato flour, dried garlic), beef fat, tomato paste, flavoring, salt, spices, sugar, sodium bisulfite, caramel color, mushroom extract (mushrooms, maltodextrin), seasoning (maltodextrin, natural flavoring [contains soybean], ascorbic acid [to help protect flavor]), sodium metabisulfite.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600302098
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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