Heinz NOVA 4

Street Corn Sauce

Street Corn Sauce: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Street Corn Sauce by Heinz has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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 Street Corn Sauce 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 Street Corn Sauce sits nationally

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

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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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

soybean oil, water, vinegar, pasteurized milk sugar, enzyme modified egg yolks, egg yolks, chipotle chil peppers, contains less than 2% of salt, nonfat dry milk garlic powder, modified food starch, spices, dried onions lactic acid, lime juice concentrate, xanthan gum, mustard flour, natural smoke flavor, butter (cream, salt), sodium phosphates, corn powder, cultures, enzymes, natural flavor, smoked paprika, jalapeno peppers, citric acid potassium sorbate. sodium benzoate and calcium disodium edta (to protect flavor). contains: milk, egg.

Product Details

Brand
Heinz
Barcode
0013000015127
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Street Corn Sauce rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Street Corn Sauce's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Street Corn Sauce's 3.5/5 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.