Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes
Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes by Banquet has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- 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
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 Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes, 6 of its 6 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 Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
SAUCE: Water, Sour Cream (Milk, Cream, Whey, Modified Food Starch, Sodium Phosphate, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Calcium Sulfate, Locust Bean Gum, Sodium Citrate, Culture, Natamyacin [Natural Preservative]), Modified Corn Starch, Soybean Oil, Salt, Onions, Nonfat Dry Milk, Beef Flavor (Cooked Beef, Yeast Extract, Maltodextrin, Caramelized Sugar Syrup, Beef Tallow, Beef Extract, Vegetable Juice Concentrates [Onion, Carrot, Celery], Salt, Sugar, Corn Starch, Lactic Acid, Flavorings) , Rochester Sauce (Distilled Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Water, Salt, Garlic Powder, Spices, Tamarind, Natural Flavor) Burgundy Wine, Canola Oil, Garlic, Caramel Color, Butter (Cream, Salt), Ground Black Pepper, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum. EGG NOODLES: Water, Durum Flour ([Durum Wheat Semolina, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate [Iron], Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Dried Whole Eggs), Soybean Oil. SWEDISH MEATBALLS: Made with Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Beef, Water, Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caram
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
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Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Banquet
- Barcode
- 0031000007157
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes rank on ingredient safety?
Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes scores 4.2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 60% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.2/5 rating on Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.2/5 average places Swedish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes in the Low Risk tier.
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