Pure Baking Soda

Pure Baking Soda: 4/5 ingredient safety

Pure Baking Soda by Arm & Hammer has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 1

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How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Pure Baking Soda, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Pure Baking Soda sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.

Full Ingredients List

SODIUM BICARBONATE.

Product Details

Barcode
0033200016700
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Pure Baking Soda rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Pure Baking Soda sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Pure Baking Soda's 4/5 score be read?

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 4/5 average places Pure Baking Soda 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.