Cheese balls
Cheese balls by Martin's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 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 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Cheese balls has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Cheese balls sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
Corn meal, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: canola, corn, cottonseed, safflower, soybean, or sunflower), whey, corn starch, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, annotto extract, cheese cultures, enzymes), maltodextrin, soluble corn fiber, salt, butter (cream, water, salt), natural and artificial flavor, buttermilk, monosodium glutamate, yellow #5, yellow #6, yellow #5 lake.
Product Details
- Brand
- Martin's
- Barcode
- 0033049105450
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cheese balls above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cheese balls's 2/5 average puts it in the lower 100%, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Cheese balls?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Cheese balls's 2/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Caution 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.