Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni
Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni by Valu Time has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pizzas pies and quiches / Pizzas
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni 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 Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
- Sodium Nitrite - 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
Crust: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, soybean oil, sugar, yeast, salt, baking powder (corn starch, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), degerminated yellow corn meal, soy flour. sauce: water, tomato paste (tomatoes), seasoning blend (modified corn starch, salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, sugar, spice, soybean oil, contains less than 2% guar gum, parmesan cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], xanthan gum, paprika, citric acid, beet powder [color], soy flour), sugar, modified food starch. mozzarella cheese blend: mozzarella cheese substitute (water, palm oil, rennet casein [milk protein], sodium aluminum phosphate, modified food starch, salt, lactic acid, natural flavor, sodium citrate, sorbic acid [preservative], enrichment blend [magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, ferric orthophosphate, vitamin a palmitate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, niacinam
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Valu Time
- Barcode
- 0011225122781
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.7/5, Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni sits behind 87% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni's 3.7/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Pepperoni pizza, pepperoni's mapped ingredients average out to 3.7/5, 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.