Sweet & hot beef jerky
Sweet & hot beef jerky by Jack Link's has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
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 Sweet & hot beef jerky 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 Sweet & hot beef jerky sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
Full Ingredients List
beef, water, sugar, brown sugar, contains 2% or less of flavors, salt, beef stock, yeast extract, citric acid, pineapple powder.
Product Details
- Brand
- Jack Link's
- Barcode
- 0017082888129
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sweet & hot beef jerky above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sweet & hot beef jerky's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Sweet & hot beef jerky's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is 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.