Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar
Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar by Simply has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Corn chips / Flavoured corn crisps
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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar 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 Puffs White Cheddar sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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
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
Enriched corn meal (corn meal, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sunflower oil, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey, corn maltodextrin, sea salt, natural flavors, sour cream (cultured cream, skim milk), torula yeast, lactic acid, citric acid.
Product Details
- Brand
- Simply
- Barcode
- 0028400800358
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar rank on ingredient safety?
Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar's 5/5 score be read?
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 5/5 average places Cheetos Puffs White Cheddar in the Generally Safe tier.
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