Stater Bros
Open Food Facts brand roll-up for Stater Bros, 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
Stater Bros averages 93.3/100 across the 286 of 453 tracked products that carry an ingredient list, and 22.7% 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.
- 93.3/100
- average ingredient-screening score across 286 scored products
- 453
- tracked products in this brand roll-up
- 22.7%
- scored products with at least one flagged ingredient
- 58.6%
- 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 453 tracked products, the useful signal is the shape of the portfolio rather than one headline score. The current concern-sorted list begins Sweet & Salty Trail Mix; Peach Ice Tea Drink Mix; Dino's snacks, fruit; 22.7% of records contain at least one flagged ingredient while the overall mean is 93.3/100. 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 286 of 453 tracked Stater Bros records (63.1%) include an ingredient list. The remaining 167 cannot be screened, so the 93.3/100 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 Stater Bros
Stater Bros: 453 products tracked, 286 with an ingredient list, avg safety score 93.3/100, 22.7% of those scored products has at least one flagged ingredient.
Because ingredient lists cover only 63.1% 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), Stater Bros's 22.7% flagged share is 4.7 points above that cohort median.
Processing mix (NOVA)
Stater Bros processing intensity
Stater Bros's NOVA-classified set is 280 products: 58.6% ultra-processed (Group 4, 164 items) with Group 4 (ultra-processed) largest at 164. That ultra-processed share sits 19.7 points below the 78.3% median for 1,323 brands with 50+ products. NOVA is processing intensity, not additive safety.
Shelf mix
Where Stater Bros shows up in Open Food Facts
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Stater Bros concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (122, 54% of this top-five); Dairies (34); Snacks (29); Condiments (22); Meats and their products (19).
Average score by leading shelf label
| Shelf | Scored n | Avg | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant-based foods and beverages | 117 | 97.9/100 | 6.8% |
| Dairies | 32 | 98.9/100 | 12.5% |
| Snacks | 29 | 78.8/100 | 24.1% |
| Condiments | 22 | 94.5/100 | 40.9% |
| Meats and their products | 17 | 91.2/100 | 70.6% |
Cohort context
Flagged-ingredient share among large brands
Stater Bros's 22.7% flagged share is measured across 286 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.
Stater Bros flagged share vs large-brand cohort
22.7% of scored products carry at least one flagged ingredient
23% 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%
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- 10%–20%
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- 20%–30%
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- 30%–40%
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- 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 (93.3/100) summarizes 286 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.
Stater Bros product score distribution
Brand average 93.3/100 across 286 scored products
93 19th percentile sits above 19% of the 286 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
- 7 scored products (2%)
- 10–20
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 30–40
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 40–50
- 4 scored products (1%)
- 50–60
- 1 scored products (0%)
- 60–70
- 5 scored products (2%)
- 70–80
- 8 scored products (3%)
- 80–90
- 17 scored products (6%)
- 90–100
- 21 scored products (7%)
- 100 and above
- 221 scored products (77%)
Source Open Food Facts product labels × FDA SAFFA × CSPI · September 2026
Stater Bros relies most on Caramel Coloring, an industry staple
Across the 286 Stater Bros products scored here, Caramel Coloring appears in 17. It is used by 3,551 other brands in this database (10.1% 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 | Stater Bros products | Why it is flagged |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 17 | Restricted: California (Prop 65 warning for 4-MEI) |
| Red 40 | 14 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 12 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Yellow 5 | 12 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Aspartame | 10 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Yellow 6 | 10 | FDA voluntary phase-out target 2027-12-31 (a request, not a ban) · Restricted: California (schools) |
| Carrageenan | 9 | Concern recorded by a review body; no ban cited |
| Sodium Nitrite | 9 | Preservative with a recorded concern |
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 Stater Bros 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 (13 ingredients and 70/100) 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
- 13 ingredients
- Median score
- 70/100
The outlined point is Sweet & Salty Trail Mix, the displayed record with the most flagged ingredients (9). 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
- Sweet & Salty Trail Mix: 36 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 9 flagged.
- Peach Ice Tea Drink Mix: 15 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 6 flagged.
- Dino's snacks, fruit: 22 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Fruit Flavored Snacks: 22 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Peanuts snacks, fruit: 20 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Curious George Snacks: 21 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Fruit Flavored Snack: 22 resolved ingredients, 0/100, 4 flagged.
- Country harvest, freshly baked blueberry bagels, blueberry: 30 resolved ingredients, 10/100, 4 flagged.
- Lite Thousand Island Dressing: 36 resolved ingredients, 30/100, 4 flagged.
- Fruit motions, pomegranate blueberry diet flavored water beverage, pomegranate blueberry: 14 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Original big & flaky crescent rolls, original: 33 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Lemonade thirst quenchers low calorie drink mix: 13 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Lemonade thirst quenchers low calorie drink mix: 13 resolved ingredients, 45/100, 3 flagged.
- Old fashioned neapolitan vanilla flavored, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream, neapolitan: 22 resolved ingredients, 65/100, 3 flagged.
- Easy churned light neapolitan vanilla, chocolate, & strawberry ice cream, neapolitan: 20 resolved ingredients, 65/100, 3 flagged.
- Strawberry Premium Ice Cream With Real Strawberry Pieces, Strawberry: 16 resolved ingredients, 65/100, 3 flagged.
- Stater Bros Original Syrup: 14 resolved ingredients, 65/100, 3 flagged.
- Tapioca pudding snacks cups, tapioca: 17 resolved ingredients, 50/100, 2 flagged.
- Strawberry & cream instant oatmeal: 31 resolved ingredients, 60/100, 2 flagged.
- Coconut pineapple sparking water: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Stater Brothers sparkling water black cherry: 9 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Stater Bros Sparkling Water Key Lime: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Stater Bros Sparkling Water: 9 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- flavored sparkling water: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Stater Bros Tangerine Lime: 8 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Sparkling water: 9 resolved ingredients, 70/100, 2 flagged.
- Apple cinnamon instant oatmeal: 18 resolved ingredients, 80/100, 2 flagged.
- Orange cream artificially flavored vanilla ice cream with an orange sherbet shell bars, orange cream: 19 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Heavy whipping cream: 5 resolved ingredients, 90/100, 2 flagged.
- Juice Cocktail From Concentrate: 14 resolved ingredients, 75/100, 1 flagged.
- Deli style mesquite smoked turkey breast: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Deli style oven roasted turkey breast: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Cured turkey ham thigh meat: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Oven Roasted Turkey Breast: 11 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Deli thin cuts turkey breast, honey: 12 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Cooked ham: 7 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Turkey Bacon: 10 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Premium hickory smoked center cut bacon: 6 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Lite ranch dressing, ranch: 24 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Sweet Tea Bags: 2 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Mozzarella & Cheddar Fat Free Shredded Cheese: 12 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Apples & cinnamon sugar free instant oatmeal, apples & cinnamon: 18 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Butter microwave popcorn, butter: 9 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Cooked ham with natural juices: 8 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Granulated saccharin sugar substitute: 4 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Granulated sucralose no calorie sweetener: 2 resolved ingredients, 85/100, 1 flagged.
- Neapolitan style triple vanilla ice cream featuring vanilla, vanilla bean and french vanilla, triple vanilla: 13 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Blended: 13 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Baby Back Ribs: 24 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
- Non Dairy Creamer: 12 resolved ingredients, 95/100, 1 flagged.
Products by Stater Bros
Showing 50 display-quality records, sorted by concern level (most flagged first); 403 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 Stater Bros: closest on tracked product count (453 here) and closest on average ingredient screening score (93.3/100 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 Stater Bros food safe? ▼
Stater Bros has an average safety score of 93/100 across the 286 of 453 tracked products that carry an ingredient list. 22.7% of those contain flagged ingredients.
How many Stater Bros products are tracked? ▼
Our database tracks 453 Stater Bros products. 286 include an ingredient list and can be screened against FDA SAFFA and CSPI data; 167 cannot be scored from this snapshot.
How processed is the Stater Bros catalog? ▼
Stater Bros has 280 NOVA-classified products; 58.6% are ultra-processed (Group 4, 164 items) and Group 4 is the largest slice. NOVA describes processing intensity, not whether additives on a label are flagged.
Which shelves dominate the Stater Bros catalog? ▼
In Open Food Facts shelf labels, Stater Bros concentrates in Plant-based foods and beverages (122, 54% of this top-five); Dairies (34); Snacks (29); Condiments (22); Meats and their products (19).
Does Stater Bros use artificial dyes? ▼
Open the individual product pages below to see which Stater Bros 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 Stater Bros 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 Sweet & Salty Trail Mix, the displayed product with the most flagged ingredients (9) in this sample. Open the outlier product
- Caramel Coloring appears in 17 scored Stater Bros products, review why each source flags it before treating the brand average as uniform. Review flagged ingredient counts
- Compare Stater Bros's 93.3/100 average and 22.7% 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.
