Beef & cheese mini empanadas
Beef & cheese mini empanadas by Delimex has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Beef & cheese mini empanadas 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). 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients are 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 Beef & cheese mini empanadas sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Dough (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], butter [cream, salt], cream cheese [cultured milk and cream, salt, stabilizers (xanthan and/or carob bean and/or guar gum)], water), filling (water, ground beef, diced tomatoes [diced tomatoes, tomato juice, citric acid, calcium chloride], yellow onions, cooked black beans, pasteurized process cheddar cheese [cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), water, milkfat, sodium phosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, salt, apocarotenal (color), cellulose powder], soy flour, corn, textured vegetable protein, modified food starch, sunflower oil, salt, yeast extract, spices, molasses powder, roasted beef and concentrated beef stock, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, corn syrup solids, hydrolyzed soy protein, cilantro, dehydrated garlic, dried red bell peppers, natural flavor, tomato powder, caramel color, sugar, lemon juice solids, toasted sesame oil, chicken fat), water, sunflo
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Beef & cheese mini empanadas: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Delimex
- Barcode
- 0017696908060
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Beef & cheese mini empanadas rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Beef & cheese mini empanadas's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 4/5 average places Beef & cheese mini empanadas in the Low Risk 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.