Mac-pea salad
Mac-pea salad by Fareway has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Prepared salads / Salads
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Mac-pea salad 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 Mac-pea salad sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
Pasta (durum semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate (iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salad dressing (soybean oil, water, high fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, modified food starch, egg yolk, salt, mustard flour, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate as a preservative), peas (peas, salt), sugar, cheddar cheese (mild cheddar cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, annatto (color), potato starch and powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), natamycin (natural mold inhibitor), water, onion, celery, dill relish (cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, alum, xanthan gum, natural flavors, garlic powder, potassium sorbate (preservative), polysorbate 80, turmeric), salt, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate added as a preservative, delika gum (xanthan gum, guar gum and gum tragacanth, standardized with dextrose), onion powder, black pepper.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Mac-pea salad: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Fareway
- Barcode
- 0021333350105
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Mac-pea salad's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Mac-pea salad's 3.7/5 average puts it in the lower 87%, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.7/5 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 3.7/5 average places Mac-pea salad 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.