Fareway
Open Food Facts brand roll-up for Fareway, current as of September 2026. Screening averages and flag shares live in the short-answer band below. This hero only situates the catalog slice.
The short answer
Fareway averages 89.1/100 across the 108 of 387 tracked products that carry an ingredient list, and 34.3% of those contain at least one separately flagged ingredient. The figure summarizes Open Food Facts labels cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI; it does not establish recall status, allergy suitability, or the composition of products outside this snapshot.
- 89.1/100
- average ingredient-screening score across 108 scored products
- 387
- tracked products in this brand roll-up
- 34.3%
- scored products with at least one flagged ingredient
- 68.5%
- of NOVA-classified products that are ultra-processed (Group 4)
Source snapshot current as of September 2026; open individual products before making a product-specific decision.
Portfolio reading
Use the distribution, then open the outliers
With 387 tracked products, the useful signal is the shape of the portfolio rather than one headline score. The current concern-sorted list begins Spice Drops Candy; Fareway, delicious candies buttons, butterscotch; Delicious Candies Gummi Worms; 34.3% of records contain at least one flagged ingredient while the overall mean is 89.1/100. Open those outliers first, then compare neighboring formulations. The aggregate does not establish recall status, allergen suitability, or the composition of an item outside this snapshot.
Catalog evidence
Ingredient-list coverage comes before the score
Only 108 of 387 tracked Fareway records (27.9%) include an ingredient list. The remaining 279 cannot be screened, so the 89.1/100 mean describes the labelled subset rather than the whole brand.
Next check: use the product rows below to verify the labelled subset, then compare the current package for any unscored item.
What the Data Says About Fareway
Fareway: 387 products tracked, 108 with an ingredient list, avg safety score 89.1/100, 34.3% of those scored products has at least one flagged ingredient.
Because ingredient lists cover only 27.9% of tracked records, this average is a description of the labelled subset, not a brand-wide tier. The coverage gap is the dominant limitation. Scoring methodology + dye-pledge context →
Among the 804 brands with 50+ products (the typical brand in that group flags 18% of its catalog), Fareway's 34.3% flagged share is 16.3 points above that cohort median.
Processing mix (NOVA)
Fareway processing intensity
Fareway's NOVA-classified set is 108 products: 68.5% ultra-processed (Group 4, 74 items) with Group 4 (ultra-processed) largest at 74. That ultra-processed share sits 9.8 points below the 78.3% median for 1,323 brands with 50+ products. NOVA is processing intensity, not additive safety.
Shelf mix
Where Fareway shows up in Open Food Facts
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Fareway concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (36, 40% of this top-five); Condiments (17); Desserts (17); Dairies (11); Snacks (10).
Average score by leading shelf label
| Shelf | Scored n | Avg | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desserts | 17 | 72.9/100 | 94.1% |
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 11 | 100/100 | 0% |
| Condiments | 10 | 99.5/100 | 10% |
| Beverages | 6 | 67.5/100 | 83.3% |
| Dairies | 6 | 100/100 | 0% |
Cohort context
Flagged-ingredient share among large brands
Fareway's 34.3% flagged share is measured across 108 scored products. The chart places that rate against the 50 brands with 50+ scored products in this snapshot, the same qualifying cohort used on the rankings page.
Fareway flagged share vs large-brand cohort
34.3% of scored products carry at least one flagged ingredient
34% 0th percentile is at or above the flagged share of 0% of the 50 qualifying brands we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more qualifying brands. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0%–10%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 10%–20%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 20%–30%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 30%–40%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 40%–50%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 50%–60%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 60%–70%
- 0 qualifying brands (0%)
- 70%–80%
- 3 qualifying brands (6%)
- 80%–90%
- 25 qualifying brands (50%)
- 90% and above
- 22 qualifying brands (44%)
Source Open Food Facts × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Portfolio shape
How scores cluster inside this brand
The brand average (89.1/100) summarizes 108 scored products. This distribution shows whether that mean sits on a tight cluster or a wide spread, a few low-scoring SKUs can matter even when the headline average looks strong.
Fareway product score distribution
Brand average 89.1/100 across 108 scored products
89 18th percentile sits above 18% of the 108 scored products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–10
- 4 scored products (4%)
- 20–30
- 3 scored products (3%)
- 30–40
- 1 scored products (1%)
- 40–50
- 2 scored products (2%)
- 70–80
- 7 scored products (6%)
- 80–90
- 4 scored products (4%)
- 90–100
- 16 scored products (15%)
- 100 and above
- 71 scored products (66%)
Source Open Food Facts product labels × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Fareway relies most on Carrageenan, an industry staple
Across the 108 Fareway products scored here, Carrageenan appears in 14. It is used by 2,390 other brands in this database (6.8% of them), so its presence says more about the category than about this brand. A flag records that a named source raised a concern about an ingredient. It is not a finding that a product is unsafe to eat.
| Flagged ingredient | Fareway products | Why it is flagged |
|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 14 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Caramel Coloring | 13 | Restricted: California (Prop 65 warning for 4-MEI) |
| Red 40 | 10 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Blue 1 | 9 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Polysorbate 80 | 8 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Yellow 6 | 7 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 5 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Sucralose | 5 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
Counts are products in this database whose ingredient list names the flagged ingredient. Flags come from FDA enforcement actions, CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings and US state ingredient laws; see the methodology for how each source is applied.
Visible product sample
Label complexity does not determine the screening result
Each point is one of the 50 concern-sorted Fareway records shown below. Horizontal position is the number of resolved ingredients on that product's stored label; vertical position is its source-derived screening score. The dashed medians (12.5 ingredients and 90/100) divide this displayed sample only. A longer label is not automatically worse: open a specific product to inspect its flagged rows and source coverage.
- Shown records
- 50
- Median label
- 12.5 ingredients
- Median score
- 90/100
The outlined point is Spice Drops Candy, the displayed record with the most flagged ingredients (5). Bubble size represents flagged ingredient count plus one, so zero-flagged products remain visible. The score is derived from FDA SAFFA and CSPI fields; this chart does not establish recall status, dietary suitability, or a health outcome.
Read the plotted values
- Spice Drops Candy: 10 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 5 flagged.
- Fareway, delicious candies buttons, butterscotch: 8 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Delicious Candies Gummi Worms: 11 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Delicious Candies Jelly Beans: 12 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Black Cherry Flavored Premium Ice Cream Loaded With Black Cherries, Black Cherry: 20 resolved ingredients, 30/100, 4 flagged.
- Soda: 11 resolved ingredients, 25/100, 3 flagged.
- Orange, Cherry, & Grape Assorted Twin Pops, Orange, Cherry, & Grape: 12 resolved ingredients, 25/100, 3 flagged.
- Assorted Pops, Orange, Grape, And Cherry: 12 resolved ingredients, 25/100, 3 flagged.
- Raspberry Sherbet, Raspberry: 18 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Mint Moose Tracks Premium Ice Cream: 37 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Fareway Vanilla Ice Cream: 19 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 3 flagged.
- Chocolate & Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream, Chocolate & Vanilla: 19 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 3 flagged.
- Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Chocolate Chip: 26 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 3 flagged.
- Fareway, fast chillers, sparkling beverage, black cherry, black cherry: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Fast Chillers, Key Lime Sparkling Beverage, Lime: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Sparkling beverage: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Sparkling beverage: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Fareway, fast chillers, sparkling beverage, strawberry, strawberry: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Orange Sherbet Push Pops, Orange Sherbet: 17 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Toffee Flavored Ice Cream With Butter Brickle Toffee Pieces, Butter Brickle: 24 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Premium French Vanilla Ice Cream, French Vanilla: 16 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Premium Extreme! Chocolate Ice Cream With Moose Tracks Fudge-Filled Cups And Famous Moose Tracks Fudge, Chocolate, Moose Tracks: 31 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream Sundae Cones, Vanilla: 28 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream In A Sugar Cone, Dipped In Chocolate Flavored Coating, Topped With Peanuts And Bisque Mini Ice Cream Sundae Cones, Vanilla, Chocolate: 28 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Mini Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream Sandwiches, Vanilla: 28 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Strawberry Jello: 47 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Beef summer sausage: 8 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Family Size Duplex Cremes Cookies: 17 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Italian dressing: 20 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Country Doctor Soda: 8 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Cream Soda: 7 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Apple Juice Cocktail: 8 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Mac-pea salad: 50 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Ranch Dip Mix: 10 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Fareway crinkle cut fries: 10 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Premium Toffee Ice Cream With Toffee Chunks And A Thick Caramel Ribbon, Mt. Toffee: 38 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Premium Vanilla Ice Cream With Peanut Butter Cups And Famous Moose Tracks Fudge, Vanilla: 32 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Chocolate Peanut Clusters: 11 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Whole wheat penne rigate, macaroni product: 1 resolved ingredient, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Split Top Sandwich Bread: 21 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Tomato ketchup: 8 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Sour Cream & Onion Potato Chips: 23 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Yellow Corn Tortilla Chips: 4 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Fareway, baked potato chips, sour cream & onion: 27 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Fareway, corn pops, caramel: 11 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Fareway, pretzel nuggets, peanut butter: 17 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Peanut butter filled pretzels: 13 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Cripsy hexagon corn & rice cereal: 21 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- Real Milk Chocolate Chips: 6 resolved ingredients, 100/100, 0 flagged.
- real milk chocolate chips: 1 resolved ingredient, 100/100, 0 flagged.
Products by Fareway
Showing 50 display-quality records, sorted by concern level (most flagged first); 337 tracked records with unusable upstream names remain in the aggregate but are not shown.
Nationwide brands with similar catalog profiles
Two PlainFoodSafe-derived peer sets for Fareway: closest on tracked product count (387 here) and closest on average ingredient screening score (89.1/100 here). Rows stay link-disjoint so each axis is a distinct neighborhood, not a largest-catalog strip.
Similar product count
Nearest other brands by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar average screening score
Nearest other brands by average ingredient screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Counts and averages from Open Food Facts labels screened against FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine; neither axis is a health outcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Fareway food safe? ▼
Fareway has an average safety score of 89/100 across the 108 of 387 tracked products that carry an ingredient list. 34.3% of those contain flagged ingredients.
How many Fareway products are tracked? ▼
Our database tracks 387 Fareway products. 108 include an ingredient list and can be screened against FDA SAFFA and CSPI data; 279 cannot be scored from this snapshot.
How processed is the Fareway catalog? ▼
Fareway has 108 NOVA-classified products; 68.5% are ultra-processed (Group 4, 74 items) and Group 4 is the largest slice. NOVA describes processing intensity, not whether additives on a label are flagged.
Which shelves dominate the Fareway catalog? ▼
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Fareway concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (36, 40% of this top-five); Condiments (17); Desserts (17); Dairies (11); Snacks (10).
Does Fareway use artificial dyes? ▼
Open the individual product pages below to see which Fareway items list a synthetic dye on their label. For whether the company has committed to removing dyes, the FDA and CSPI both publish corporate-commitment trackers; we no longer restate those commitments here.
What to do with this Fareway profile
Use this roll-up as orientation, then verify the specific package you hold against its ingredient panel and the named official sources.
- Start with Spice Drops Candy, the displayed product with the most flagged ingredients (5) in this sample. Open the outlier product
- Carrageenan appears in 14 scored Fareway products, review why each source flags it before treating the brand average as uniform. Review flagged ingredient counts
- Compare Fareway's 89.1/100 average and 34.3% flagged share against other brands before treating either figure as a recall or clearance signal. Brand safety rankings
- Cross-check any additive concern against FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine rather than relying on this derived index alone. Scoring methodology
A flagged ingredient records a source concern, not a recall, ban, or medical clearance. Always verify the current package label and consult official sources for product-specific decisions.
Citation & disclaimer notes
Brand scores aggregate ingredient-level FDA SAFFA + CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings across Open Food Facts product data. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Disclaimer: Informational purposes only; not professional advice. A flagged ingredient is not a recall or a ban. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Brand figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026.
