Olive oil
Olive oil by Lowe’s has 10 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snack-mix
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. 10 of 10 ingredients tracked for Olive oil 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 Olive oil sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% 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
degermed yellow corn meal, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whole wheat, vegetable oil (soybean oil, palm oil, fractionated palm oil, high oleic canola oil, high oleic soybean oil, high oleic sunflower oil, and/or corn oil), rye flour, sugar, salt, contains 2% or less of: corn maltodextrin, yeast, spices, dextrose, caramel color, monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, baking soda, onion powder, garlic powder, barley malt syrup, malt syrup, distilled monoglycerides, yellow corn flour, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, calcium carbonate, hydrolyzed soy protein, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, citric acid, paprika extract (for color), natural flavor, stuffing spices, fumaric acid, caraway, sodium diacetate, BHT
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Olive oil: 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: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 10.
Product Details
- Brand
- Lowe’s
- Barcode
- 0016000214972
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Olive oil's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.9/5, Olive oil sits behind 81% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.9/5 rating on Olive oil?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Olive oil's mapped ingredients average out to 3.9/5, 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.