Italian dry salami
Italian dry salami by Busseto Foods Inc. has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.7 out of 5, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats / Cured sausages / Salami
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 Italian dry salami, 3 of its 3 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 Italian dry salami sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.7 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
- Sodium Nitrate - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Nitrite - 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
Pork, salt and less than 2% of the following: dextrose, wine, natural flavorings, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, lactic acid starter culture.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Italian dry salami: 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: 2.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Busseto Foods Inc.
- Barcode
- 0038101008724
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Italian dry salami's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Italian dry salami's 2.7/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2.7/5 rating on Italian dry salami?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Italian dry salami's 2.7/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.