Loaded casserole potatoes
Loaded casserole potatoes by Betty Crocker has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Fruits and vegetables based foods / Vegetables based foods
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 Loaded casserole potatoes 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 Loaded casserole potatoes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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
Potatoes*, corn starch, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), maltodextrin, salt, potassium phosphate, onion*, imitation bacon bits (vital wheat gluten, salt, maltodextrin, canola oil, natural smoke flavor, colored with caramel color and red 40 lake, monosodium glutamate, citric acid, sugar), ricotta cheese* (whey, milkfat, lactic acid, salt), whey, potassium chloride, coconut oil, cheddar cheese* (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), natural flavor, vegetable oil (canola, soybean and/or sunflower oil), citric acid, cultured buttermilk, buttermilk, sour cream* (cream,skim milk,cultures), chives*, bacon fat, lactic acid, butter (cream, salt), mono and diglycerides, color (annatto extract, yellow lakes 5 & 6), calcium lactate, cooked bacon ([cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite], smoke flavoring), nonfat milk, sugar, blue cheese* (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Loaded casserole potatoes: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Brand
- Betty Crocker
- Barcode
- 0016000285583
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Loaded casserole potatoes rank on ingredient safety?
Loaded casserole potatoes scores 4.4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 69% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 4.4/5 average places Loaded casserole potatoes 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.