Mashed potatoes
Mashed potatoes by Food Lion has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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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 Mashed potatoes 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 Mashed potatoes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
- Titanium Dioxide - Safety score: 2/5
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, whole milk, butter (sweet cream, salt), margarine (liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, contains less than 2% of vegetable mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, citric acid, natural and artificial flavor, vitamin a palmitate added), salt, dehydrated garlic, water, potassium sorbate to protect flavor, dehydrated roasted garlic, disodium pyrophosphate to maintain color, titanium dioxide (color).
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826066718
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Mashed potatoes rank on ingredient safety?
Mashed potatoes scores 2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 100% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Mashed potatoes?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Mashed potatoes's mapped ingredients average out to 2/5, which is the Caution 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.