Bold
Bold by Chex mix has 11 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers
How This Score Is Built
Bold 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). 11 of its 11 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 Bold sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
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
Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Whole Wheat, Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), Vegetable Oil (soybean, palm, fractionated palm, high oleic canola, high oleic soybean, high oleic sunflower, palm olein and/or palm kernel), Sugar, Rye Flour, Monosodium Glutamate, Syrup Solids, Baking Soda, Sodium Diacetate, Barley Malt, Salt, Maltodextrin, Yeast, Garlic Powder, Whey Powder, Corn Syrup, Malt Syrup, Onion Powder, Dried Romano Cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), Dried Parmesan Cheese (cultures, salt, enzymes), Dried Molasses, Disodium Inosinate, Distilled Monoglycerides, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Phosphate, Spice, Basil, Yellow Corn Flour, Trisodium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Soy Lecithin, Black Pepper, Calcium Stearate, Oregano, Natural Flavor, Soy Flour, Soy Sauce, Wheat Starch, Butter, Color (turmeric, annatto, lake color, caramel color), Fumaric Acid, Caraway, Parsley, Yeast Extract, Sodium Phosphate, Calcium Lactate. Contains W
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Bold: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 11.
Product Details
- Brand
- Chex mix
- Barcode
- 0016000214897
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Bold's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.8/5, Bold sits behind 84% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Bold's 3.8/5 score be read?
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 3.8/5 average places Bold 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.