Iced lemon shortbread cookies
Iced lemon shortbread cookies by Clover Valley has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Biscuits
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 Iced lemon shortbread cookies, 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients carry 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 Iced lemon shortbread cookies 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
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 flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, vegetable oil shortening (palm and palm kernel oils), cornstarch, corn syrup, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), salt, natural and artificial flavor, soy lecithin, annatto extract (color), citric acid, malic acid.
Product Details
- Brand
- Clover Valley
- Barcode
- 0020200530022
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Iced lemon shortbread cookies's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Iced lemon shortbread cookies's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Iced lemon shortbread cookies?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Iced lemon shortbread cookies's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.