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IKEA: what it’s actually made from

Every IKEA product we have scored, with the maker’s own words about materials and what those words leave out. Average across the range: 59.7 out of 100.

We have scored 3 IKEA products. They average 59.7 out of 100 on materials, and the spread between the best and worst is 31 points.

Of those 3: 2 name the surface that touches food at least to a material family; 0 state a country of manufacture; 0 have a materials claim backed by anything other than the maker’s own word.

That spread is the thing worth noticing. The same company publishes enough about IKEA 365+ Glass Container 34 oz for it to score 70, and so little about IKEA 365+ Food Container with Lid, plastic 4.2L that it scores 39. Disclosure here is a per-product decision, not a house style.

Every IKEA product we have scored

ProductCategoryScore /100What it is made of
IKEA 365+ Glass Container 34 oz · USFood storage70“Heat resistant glass”, type not named · polypropylene lid · silicone rubber seal
IKEA 365+ Food Container with Lid, glass 1.2L · AUFood storage70“Heat resistant glass” — type not published · polypropylene lid · silicone rubber seal
IKEA 365+ Food Container with Lid, plastic 4.2L · AUFood storage39Polypropylene body · polypropylene lid · silicone rubber seal — all three named

Click a product to read the full record — the exact wording the maker uses, what is missing, and every source. Scores are out of 100 and measure materials, not safety: 70/100 means “mostly inert”. The rubric is here.

Where these sit on the site

IKEA appears in Food storage. The Australian and American editions are scored the same way, so a product marked AU and one marked US are directly comparable.

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