Shoprite NOVA 4

Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara

Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara: 4/5 ingredient safety

Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara by Shoprite 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.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara 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 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Meatballs (beef, pork, whole eggs with citric acid, imported parmesan cheese [pasteurized cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, rennet and aged over 10 months, calcium propionate (preservative)]. roasted garlic, bread crumbs [enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (soybean, cottonseed, corn and/or canola), water, contains 2% or less of yeast, honey, molasses, sugar, wheat gluten, whey, soy flour, whole wheat flour, rye flour, corn flour, oat bran. corn meal. rice flour, potato flour, butter, dough conditioners (mono and diglycerides, sodium and/or calcium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin, calcium carbonate), yeast nutrients (ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), distilled vinegar, skim milk, buttermilk, lactic acid, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), sesame seeds, parsley, garlic, spices, parmesa

Product Details

Barcode
0041190459896
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Kitchen, Classic Italian Style Meatballs With Marinara'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.