Mashed potatoes
Mashed potatoes by Hormel has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score 0.38 points above 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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Mashed 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 Mashed potatoes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
Cooked potatoes (potatoes, water), milk with vitamin d3, butter (cream and salt), pasteurized process white cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of milk fat, salt), sour cream (cream, milk, nonfat dry milk, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, locust bean gum, culture), contains 2% or less of cream, bacon (cured with water, sugar, salt, smoke flavoring, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), cultured dextrose, sea salt, sodium diacetate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, spice, chives, potassium sorbate (preservative), nisin preparation (salt, nisin).
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600810791
- 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?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Mashed potatoes sits ahead of 71% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Mashed potatoes's 4.5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Mashed potatoes's 4.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.