Sweet Earth Natural Foods Nutri-Score B NOVA 3

Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon

Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon: 4/5 ingredient safety

Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon by Sweet Earth Natural Foods 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 B.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

Meats and their products / Meats

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 Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon 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
B
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

filtered water, vital wheat gluten, extra virgin olive oil, red beans*, buckwheat groats*, vegan bacon natural falvors, natural hickory smoke, evaporated cane juice*, maple syrup*, natural soy sauce, garlic, sea salt, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, cumin, sage, rosemary, caramelized sugar, and spices,

Product Details

Barcode
0016741411111
Nutri-Score
Grade B
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

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 4/5 average places Sweet Earth, Hickory And Sage Benevolent Bacon 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.