Toothpaste
Toothpaste by Arm & Hammer 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.
- 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
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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Toothpaste has 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 Toothpaste 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
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
drug facts (continued) directions do not swallow supervise children as necessary until capable of using without supervision • rinse away toothpaste residue thoroughly after brushing adults and children 2 years and older children under 6 years children under 2 years brush teeth thoroughly after meals or at least twice a day, or use as directed by a dentist or physician instruct in good brushing and rinsing habits (to minimize swallowing) ask a dentist or physician inactive ingredients sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), peg-8, peg/ppg 116/66 copolymer, sodium carbonate peroxide, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, silica, sodium saccharin, flavor, water, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium lauroyl sarcosinate. questions or comments? call 1-800-786-5135 mon.-fri. 9am-5pm et or visit www.myoralcare.com g, nj 08628 u.s.a. made in the usa with us and foreign materials. pcfc-18770-09 72019357 *in har areas to a lea toothp **data
Product Details
- Brand
- Arm & Hammer
- Barcode
- 0033200187707
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Toothpaste's safety score compare to other products?
Toothpaste scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Toothpaste's 4/5 score be read?
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 Toothpaste 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.