Thick Sliced Bacon
Thick Sliced Bacon by Hickory Sweet has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 2 of its ingredients carry a low safety rating.
- Safety score 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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Product Insight: Thick Sliced Bacon
Thick Sliced Bacon by Hickory Sweet is tracked in PlainIngredients with 2 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 2 out of 5, a Caution-to-High-Risk tier driven by one or more flagged ingredients. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 3 (Processed foods), and Its Nutri-Score grade is E. Within the identified ingredient list, 2 ingredients are currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 0 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale. This product's average ingredient safety score is 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
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Where Thick Sliced Bacon sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
Cured with: water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erthorbate, sodium nitrite.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hickory Sweet
- Barcode
- 0002114002480
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Thick Sliced Bacon's safety score compare to other products?
Thick Sliced Bacon scores 2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 100% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 2/5 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 2/5 average places Thick Sliced Bacon in the Caution tier.
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