Spartan Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese

Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese: 4/5 ingredient safety

Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese by Spartan has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 E.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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How This Score Is Built

Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese 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 Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese 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 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
E
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

Idaho potatoes*, canola oil, salt, butter (cream, salt, buttermilk), corn syrup solids, natural cheddar cheese flavor (natural flavors [includes milk], maltodextrin, whey [from milk], dipotassium phosphate), parmesan, blue cheese, and romano cheeses (pasteurized milk, cultures, enzymes and salt), sodium caseinate (from milk), sugar, mono - and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavors, dipotassium phosphate, soy lecithin, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, yellow 5 and yellow 6, freshness preserved with sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite and citric acid.

Product Details

Brand
Spartan
Barcode
0011213013664
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese's 4/5 score be read?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Spartan, mashed potatoes, four cheese's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in 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.