Mega meals salisbury steak
Mega meals salisbury steak by Banquet has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
Mega meals salisbury steak draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Mega meals salisbury steak sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - 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
salisbury steak patty: mechanically separated chicken, pork water, beef, textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel color) breader (enriched bleached wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), durum flour, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphatej, yeast), soy protein concentrate, salt dehydrated onion, caramel color, flavorings, sodium tripolyphosphate dextrose, natural flavors, citric acid, soy lecithin. gravy: water, modified corn starch, salt, monosodium glutamate, flavorings, caramel color, corn syrup solids, whey, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed soy protein, sugar, flavor extractives of paprika, vegetable juice concentrates (celery, carrot, onion and leek), disodium inosinate & disodium guanylate, xanthan gum, propylene glycol mashed potatoes: rehydrated potato flakes and granules (water, potatoes mono-and diglycerides, citric acid, disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, bht. sodium bisulfite), margar
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Mega meals salisbury steak: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Banquet
- Barcode
- 0031000126148
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Mega meals salisbury steak above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Mega meals salisbury steak's 3.8/5 average puts it in the lower 84%, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.8/5 rating on Mega meals salisbury steak?
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 3.8/5 average places Mega meals salisbury steak 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.