kroger Carmel apple donuts
kroger Carmel apple donuts by Kroger has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 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. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for kroger Carmel apple donuts have 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 kroger Carmel apple donuts sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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
558 0% 14% amount/serving % daily value* 16% 4% total carbohydrate 45g dietary fiber 1g total sugars 26g includes 24g added sugars . 48% protein 3g iron 1mg 6% potassium 20mg 0% *the % daily value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. edients: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, water, palm oil, high tose corn syrup, apples (contains sulfur dioxide), corn syrup, caramel flavored bits (sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, corn cereal, palm oil, corn starch, ral & artificial flavor, caramel color), soybean oil, defatted soy flour, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, ocalcium phosphate, glucono delta lactone). contains less than 2% of dextrose, spices, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavors, malic acid, cacid, locust bean gum, erythorbic acid, caramel
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for kroger Carmel apple donuts: 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: 4.1/5.
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Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110026507
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does kroger Carmel apple donuts's safety score compare to other products?
kroger Carmel apple donuts scores 4.1 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 58% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.1/5 rating on kroger Carmel apple donuts?
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 4.1/5 average places kroger Carmel apple donuts 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.