Italian Bread Crumbs
Italian Bread Crumbs by Meijer Distribution Inc has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Italian Bread Crumbs 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). 9 of its 9 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 Italian Bread Crumbs sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, calcium, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, salt, vegetable oil (soybean oil, cottonseed oil and/or canola oil), sugar, contains 2% or less of the following: wheat gluten, dextrose, soy flour, whey, calcium propionate (preservative), sodium stearoyl lactylate (dough conditioner), mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin, l-cysteine, molasses, honey, whole wheat flour, corn flour, cornmeal, citric acid, grain vinegar, wheat starch, corn starch, potato flour, rice flour, wheat bran, oat fiber, calcium sulfate, datem, potassium iodate, guar gum, calcium phosphate, enrichment (vitamin e acetate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3), lactic acid, ascorbic acid (dough conditioner), spices and coloring, natural and artificial flavor, sesame seeds, eggs, salt, oregano, onion powder, garlic powder, dehydrated parsley, black pepper.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Italian Bread Crumbs: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 9.
Product Details
- Brand
- Meijer Distribution Inc
- Barcode
- 0041250562856
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Italian Bread Crumbs above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Italian Bread Crumbs's 4.2/5 average puts it in the safer 60%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.2/5 rating on Italian Bread Crumbs?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.2/5 average places Italian Bread Crumbs 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.