Small Shells

Small Shells: 4/5 ingredient safety

Small Shells by San Giorgio, New World Pasta Company has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.

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

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products / Pastas

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 Small Shells 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 Small Shells 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 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
A
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

Semolina (wheat), durum flour (wheat), niacin ferrous sulfate (iron), thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid.

Product Details

Barcode
0033400601744
Nutri-Score
Grade A
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States,World

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Small Shells rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Small Shells 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 Small Shells's 4/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Small Shells'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.