mandarin oranges
mandarin oranges by Dole 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 1
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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 mandarin oranges 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 mandarin oranges 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.
Full Ingredients List
mandarin oranges, water, white grape juice concentrate, lemon juice from concentrate, water, lemon juice concentrate, ascorbic acid
Product Details
- Brand
- Dole
- Barcode
- 0038900773984
- NOVA Group
- 1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does mandarin oranges's safety score compare to other products?
mandarin oranges scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% 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 4/5 rating on mandarin oranges?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. mandarin oranges'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.