Potato Salad
Potato Salad by Giant Eagle has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Prepared salads / Potato dishes / Potato salads / Salads / Salted-snacks
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 Potato Salad 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 Potato Salad sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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
Potatoes, salad dressing (soybean oil, water, sugar, egg yolks [egg yolks, salt], white distilled vinegar, sea salt, modified potato starch, lemon juice, fruit and vegetable juice [color], xanthan gum), water, sugar, fructose, sweet relish (pickles, corn syrup, distilled vinegar, water, salt, red peppers, xanthan gum, natural flavors, calcium chloride, polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate, yellow 5), celery, white distilled vinegar, mustard (distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, spices), eggs, onions, red bell peppers (red bell peppers, water, citric acid), potassium sorbate (preservative), salt, granulated onion, xanthan gum, spice.
Product Details
- Brand
- Giant Eagle
- Barcode
- 0003003403833
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Potato Salad above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Potato Salad sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Potato Salad's 5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Potato Salad's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe 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.