Product Insight: Burritos, Breakfast
Burritos, Breakfast by Chi-Chi's is tracked in PlainIngredients with 2 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 3.5 out of 5 — a Mixed-Evidence tier where the regulatory picture is still evolving. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 1 ingredient sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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
Filling: whole eggs, three meats (bacon [pork, water, salt, may contain 2% or less of the following: sugar, smoke flavorings, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, sodium phosphates, dehydrated pork broth, natural flavorings, autolyzed yeast extract, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, dextrose], sausage [pork, salt, spices, dextrose, sugar, maltodextrin, natural flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate], smoked ham [cured with water, salt, dextrose, modified food starch, sodium lactate, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite]), hash browns (potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following oils: canola, soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, corn), contains 2% or less of: dextrose, natural flavor, salt, sodium acid pyrophosphate added to maintain natural color), three cheeses (pasteurized process american cheese [american cheeses {milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes}, water, milkfat, sodium citrate, salt, sodium phosphates, color {annatto and
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Chi-Chi's
- Barcode
- 0037600146159
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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