Cheese Curls
Cheese Curls 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, 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
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Cheese Curls, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Cheese Curls 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
NGREDIENTS: Corn Meal, Vegetable Oil (contains pne or more of the following Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Safflower, Soybean, or Sunilower), Whey, Corn Starch, Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Annato Extract, Cheese Cuitures Enzymes), Maltodextrin, Salt, Butter Cream, Water, Salt), Natural and Artficial Flavors, Buttermilk, Monosodium Glutamate, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Yellow 5 Lake Contains: Milk
Product Details
- Brand
- Martin's
- Barcode
- 0033049105054
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Cheese Curls rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 2/5, Cheese Curls sits behind 100% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Cheese Curls?
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 2/5 average places Cheese Curls 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.