Hershey NOVA 4

Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures

Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures: 4/5 ingredient safety

Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures by Hershey 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 4

How This Score Is Built

Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures 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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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
--
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, milk fat lactose, lecithin (soy), pgpr), peanuts, sugar, dextrose, buckwheat flour, contains 2% or less of: rice flour, oat flour, palm kernel oil, salt, natural flavor, lecithin (soy), baking soda, annatto extract (color), tbhq & citric acid (to maintain freshness).

Product Details

Brand
Hershey
Barcode
0034000852956
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

Find Products

Frequently asked questions

Where does Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures 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.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Reese’s Sugar Cookie Miniatures's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.