Meijer Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil

Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil: 5/5 ingredient safety

Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil by Meijer has 2 tracked ingredients, 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 D.

  • Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Fats / Spreads / Plant-based spreads / Salted spreads / Spreadable fats / Vegetable fats / Margarines

How This Score Is Built

Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil 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

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
D
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

Vegetable oil blend (liquid soybean oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil), water, contains less than 2% of salt, natural & artificial flavors (includes milk), whey, soy lecithin, vegetable mono & diglycerides, potassium sorbate (a preservative), citric acid, vitamin a palmitate added, beta carotene (color).

Product Details

Brand
Meijer
Barcode
0041250948773
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Meijer

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Frequently asked questions

Is Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil'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 Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Soft Margarine 80% Vegetable Oil'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.