Food Safety Rankings

The safest and most-flagged brands and products across our index of 859,000+ US food products, current as of May 2026. Among the 485 brands with 50+ products (the typical brand in that group flags 6.9% of its catalog), Trolli, Ferrara Candy Company tops the list at 100% - 14.5× the cohort median, based on a comparatively small 59-product catalog, so this share can move more with each new product than a larger brand's would.

Rankings recompute automatically as new products are indexed - they are not manually curated, sponsored, or promoted, and a brand's position can shift between refreshes.

Compiled by PlainFoodSafe Editorial, Food Product Safety Editorial Team

Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on 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 May 2026.

The short answer

Across 36,520 brands and 859,664 products, the safest carry a perfect 100 safety score, while Trolli, Ferrara Candy Company flags additives in 100% of its catalog.

97.6
average product safety score (of 100): 100%
of Trolli, Ferrara Candy Company's catalog carries a flagged additive, highest among large brands: 26
additives drive every flag (FDA SAFFA + CSPI): 36,520
brands ranked (50+ products to qualify)

Rankings draw on FDA food-additive status data and the Open Food Facts product database. Brand rankings require 50+ products to qualify. Safety scores are a transparent derived index we compute from this public data, not an official FDA rating; see our methodology for how we classify and weight each ingredient.

Products ranked

859,664

Brands tracked

36,520

Flagged additives

FDA / CSPI concern

Avg safety score

97.6/100

across all products

Among brands with 50+ indexed products, the percentage whose products contain at least one flagged additive.

Share of each brand's indexed catalog containing ≥1 flagged additive (brands with 50+ products). Source: Open Food Facts × FDA SAFFA × CSPI.

Safest Brands

Brands with a perfect 100 average safety score, ranked by catalog size (bar = relative catalog size).

#	Brand	Avg score	Products
1	Nature Valley	100.0	261
2	Bob's Red Mill	100.0	204
3	Simply Balanced	100.0	140
4	Organic Valley	100.0	117
5	Back To Nature	100.0	112
6	Nature's Path	100.0	111
7	Once Upon A Farm	100.0	94
8	Annie's homegrown	100.0	79
9	Nature's Place	100.0	73
10	Primal Kitchen	100.0	72
11	Califia Farms	100.0	69
12	Clearly Organic	100.0	65
13	Garden of Life	100.0	65
14	Purely Elizabeth	100.0	65
15	Central Market	100.0	59
16	Clean Simple Eats	100.0	58
17	Clif Bar And Company	100.0	57
18	Lundberg Family Farms	100.0	56
19	Whole Foods Market, Rocky Mountain Foods Inc.	100.0	56
20	Clif, Clif Bar And Company	100.0	54
21	Dave's Killer Bread	100.0	52
22	The Pictsweet Company	100.0	52
23	Natural Directions	100.0	50
24	Just Ingredients	100.0	49
25	Meijer Naturals	100.0	49

Most Flagged Brands

Large brands by share of catalog carrying a flagged additive (bar = flagged share). Requires 50+ products to qualify.

"Flagged" means at least one ingredient is on the FDA SAFFA or CSPI caution list, it is not a recall, a ban, or a danger rating, and this share is not adjusted for product-mix or category (a candy-heavy brand and a produce-heavy brand aren't directly comparable). See methodology.

#	Brand	Flagged %	Products
1	Trolli, Ferrara Candy Company	100.0%	59
2	Land O'Frost Inc.	97.3%	75
3	Brach's, Ferrara Candy Company	92.4%	119
4	The Jel Sert Company	90.8%	65
5	Blue Bunny, Wells Enterprises Inc.	90.5%	201
6	Shasta, Shasta Beverages	90.4%	52
7	Super Chill, Supervalu Inc.	84.9%	73
8	Wilton, Wilton Enterprises Inc	84.8%	164
9	Ferrara Candy Company	83.9%	224
10	Mrs. Freshley's, Flowers Foods Inc.	81.5%	81
11	International Delight, Dean Foods Company	81.4%	59
12	Galerie, Ross Acquisition Inc.	76.1%	205
13	Kemps, Kemps Llc	73.5%	83
14	Breyers, Unilever	71.6%	67
15	Hormel, Hormel Foods Corporation	67.6%	108
16	Crystal Light	67.1%	146
17	The Bakery, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	63.2%	95
18	Frankford, Frankford Candy Llc	62.8%	94
19	Rich Products Corporation	62.7%	67
20	Kimberley's Bakeshoppe	61.5%	52
21	Family Dollar Stores Inc.	60.9%	64
22	Momentum Brands	59.7%	119
23	Hillshire Farm	59.1%	66
24	Hammond's, Hammond's Candies Since 1920 Llc	58.0%	69
25	Refreshe, Safeway Inc.	57.4%	68

Products with Most Flagged Ingredients

Celebration Cake, Yellow Cake With Icing

Ukrop's Homestyle Foods

14 flagged

0/100

S'mores cake bites

Market Pantry, Target Stores

14 flagged

0/100

Tgi fridays, frozen filings cake pops, sea salt, caramel, sea salt, caramel

Tgi Fridays, Captivated Foods Llc

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