Instant Pudding
Instant Pudding by Restaurant Item has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.5 out of 5, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Instant Pudding 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Instant Pudding sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.5 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Titanium Dioxide - 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
SUGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, NONFAT DRY MILK, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES (PREVENT FOAMING), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL WITH BHA (PRESERVATIVE), CARAMEL COLOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (FOR COLOR), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, RED 40.
Product Details
- Brand
- Restaurant Item
- Barcode
- 0011213101514
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Instant Pudding's safety score compare to other products?
Instant Pudding scores 2.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 98% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 2.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Instant Pudding's 2.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Caution 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.