CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot
CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot by Cheetos has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Snacks / Cereals and potatoes / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Potatoes and their products / Potato crisps / Chester-s / Flamin-hot-fries
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. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot 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 Fries Flamin' Hot sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
nedn s: enriched corn meal (corn ea feous sulfate, niacin, thiamin monunitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), dried potatoes, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cu tures, salt, enzymes), salt, whey, buttermilk, monosodium glutamate, tomato powder, roviano cheese (part-skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey pro in congentte, onion powder, artificial color (red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 6), natural flavor, garlic powder, lactic acid, citric acid, sugar, disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate, contains milk ingredients, frito-lay, inc, frito lay olano ty 7roa
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Cheetos
- Barcode
- 0028400069151
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot's 4/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; CHEETOS Fries Flamin' Hot's 4/5 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.