Product Insight: hormel snack
hormel snack by Hormel is tracked in PlainIngredients with 1 identified ingredient and carries an overall safety rating of 2 out of 5 — a Caution-to-High-Risk tier driven by one or more flagged ingredients. 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, 1 ingredient is currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, 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
- Sodium Nitrite — 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
hormel® pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, i crackers (160) | contains 2% or less of water, dextrose, spices, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, 80 citric acid). about 7 35 | hormel® hard salami (beef and pork, salt, contains 2% or less of dextrose, water, 6% | spices, garlic powder, lactic 3% acid starter culture, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid). 0% % daily value* butter crisp crackers 6% (enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iřon, thiamine 3% omg mononitrate {vitamin b1}, 0% | riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid], soybean oil with tbhq for freshness, sugar, contains 2% or less of salt, corn syrup, leavening [baking soda, sodium min a 0% | acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate], malt nin c_0% | extract, butter [cream {milk), 0% salt], cornstarch, annatto color, soy lecithin). 0% um i place, austin, mn 55912 ohormel foods, llc
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
- 0037600694049
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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