Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy
Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy by Fritolay has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy have 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 Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
dieta er less tha1g p 1g vi min d 0mcg calcium 0mg iron 0.4mg potassium 40mg % %0 not a significant source of added sugars. * the % daily value (dv) tells you how much a nutrient in & serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calo ies a day is used for general nutrition advice. ingred ents: enriched corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), flamin' hot seasoning (maltodextrin [made from corn], salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate. yeast extract, citric acid, artificial color [red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 6, low 5], sunflower oil. cheddar cheese [milk to-lay, inc. fritolay rato-lay worth america in gluten free
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Fritolay
- Barcode
- 0028400691109
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy above or below average on ingredient safety?
Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy scores 3.7 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 87% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.7/5 rating on Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy?
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 3.7/5 average places Cheetos Flamin Hot Crunchy 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.