Kroger Nutri-Score A NOVA 1

Whole Water Chestnuts

Whole Water Chestnuts: 5/5 ingredient safety

Whole Water Chestnuts by Kroger has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.

  • Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 1

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How This Score Is Built

Whole Water Chestnuts draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Whole Water Chestnuts sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
A
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.

Full Ingredients List

WATER CHESTNUTS, WATER, CITRIC ACID.

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110854810
Nutri-Score
Grade A
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States
Stores
Kroger

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Whole Water Chestnuts rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Whole Water Chestnuts's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 5/5 rating on Whole Water Chestnuts?

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 5/5 average places Whole Water Chestnuts in the Generally Safe 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.