Sliced sourdough bread
Sliced sourdough bread by Safeway Inc. has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 3
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Breads
How This Score Is Built
Sliced sourdough bread 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 Sliced sourdough bread 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
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Enriched unbleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin and folic acid), water, contains 2% or less of each of the following: vital wheat gluten, salt, yeast, distilled vinegar, vegetable oil (canola and/or soy), corn meal, dough conditioners (ascorbic acid), calcium sulfate, enzymes, potassium sorbate (mold inhibitor).
Product Details
- Brand
- Safeway Inc.
- Barcode
- 0021130115853
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Sliced sourdough bread's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sliced sourdough bread's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Sliced sourdough bread?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Sliced sourdough bread's mapped ingredients average out to 5/5, which is 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.