Kroger Nutri-Score B NOVA 1

Instant White Rice

Instant White Rice: 4/5 ingredient safety

Instant White Rice by Kroger has 2 tracked ingredients, 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). 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 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
B
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

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

Pre-cooked long grain rice, niacin, ferric orthophosphate (iron), thiamin mononitrate (thiamin), folic acid. May contain: wheat, soy, milk.

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110134363
Nutri-Score
Grade B
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States
Stores
Kroger

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Frequently asked questions

Is Instant White Rice above or below average on ingredient safety?

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?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Instant White Rice's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.