Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon
Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon by Signature Select has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.7 out of 5, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats / Pork and its products / Pork / Bacon / Sliced bacon
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 Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon, 3 of its 3 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 Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.7 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Sodium Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Thick cut applewood smoked bacon, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon: 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: 2.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Signature Select
- Barcode
- 0021130159604
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Safeway
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Frequently asked questions
How does Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon's safety score compare to other products?
Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon scores 2.7 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 98% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 1.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2.7/5 rating on Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Thick Cut Applewood Smoked Bacon's 2.7/5 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.