Smoked boneless pork chops

Smoked boneless pork chops: 3/5 ingredient safety

Smoked boneless pork chops by Hormel, Hormel Foods Corporation has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Meals

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 Smoked boneless pork chops, 2 of its 2 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 Smoked boneless pork chops sits nationally

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

3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

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

Cured with water, salt, vinegar powder (dried vinegar, cultured dextrose, maltodextrin), dextrose, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.

Product Details

Barcode
0037600241540
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Smoked boneless pork chops rank on ingredient safety?

Smoked boneless pork chops scores 3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 98% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Smoked boneless pork chops's 3/5 score be read?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Smoked boneless pork chops's 3/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.