Instant white rice
Instant white rice by Giant Eagle 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. Its Nutri-Score is B.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 1
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Seeds / Cereals and their products / Cereal grains / Rices
How This Score Is Built
Instant white rice 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 white rice 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
Enriched precooked long grain rice (rice, niacin, iron (ferric orthophosphate), thiamine mononitrate, folic acid).
Product Details
- Brand
- Giant Eagle
- Barcode
- 0030034000202
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Giant Eagle
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Frequently asked questions
How does Instant white rice's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Instant white rice'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 Instant white rice?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Instant white rice'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.