Cheese Fix Snack Mix
Cheese Fix Snack Mix by Munchies has 6 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, 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
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 Fix Snack Mix, 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients carry 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 Fix Snack Mix 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
doritos nacho cheese flavored tortilla chips corn, vegetable oil (sunflower, canola, and/or corn o maltodextrin (made from corn), and less than 2% of th following: salt, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, sa enzymes), whey, monosodium glutamate, buttermilk, rom cheese (part-skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzyme romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes protein concentrate, onion powder, corn flour, natujr artificial flavors, dextrose, tomato powder, lactose sp artificial color (yellow 6, yellow 5, red 40), lactic acid, ctrica sugar, garlic powder, skim milk, red and green bell per powder, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, potassiun chloride, and sodium caseinate. cheetos crunchy cheese flavored snacks enriched corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamn mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (corn, canola and/or sunflower oil), cheese seasoning (whey, cheddar cheese imilk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], canola oil, maltodextri
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cheese Fix Snack Mix: 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: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Munchies
- Barcode
- 0028400025287
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cheese Fix Snack Mix above or below average on ingredient safety?
Cheese Fix Snack Mix scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.8/5 rating on Cheese Fix Snack Mix?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Cheese Fix Snack Mix's 3.8/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.