Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl
Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl by Safeway Kitchens has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.7 out of 5, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Biscuits / Shortbread cookies
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 Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry 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 Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.7 Top 18% higher than 82% 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
Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, vegetable shortening (canola, palm oil and palm kernel oils), lemon filling (invert sugar, sugar, glucose, sorbitol, natural flavor, pectin, sodium citrate, lemon juice concentrate, turmeric [color], dimethylpolysiloxane [anti foaming agent]) butter, contains less than 2% of: corn starch, whey, nonfat milk, salt, citric acid, leavening (baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate), whey protein concentrate, eggs, natural flavor, malic acid, soy lecithin, color (annatto, turmeric).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl: 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: 4.7/5.
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- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
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- Blended Cultured Soymilk Δ 0.0 pts · Silk 4.7/57 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Safeway Kitchens
- Barcode
- 0021130308842
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl rank on ingredient safety?
Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl scores 4.7 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 82% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.7/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Safeway kitchens, buttery shortbread sandwich cookies, lemon swirl's 4.7/5 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.