Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe
Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe by Chex mix has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe 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
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
Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Whole Wheat, Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, foli acid), Vegetable Oil (soybean, high oleic soybean, high oleic canola, high oleic sunflowe fractionated palm, palm olein and/or palm), Rye Flour, Sugar. Contains 2% or less of: Salt, Dextrose, Caramel Color, Distilled Yeast, Maltodextrin, Baking Soda, Spice, Monoglycerides, Malted Barley Extract, Barley Trisodium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Malt Syrup, Autolyzed Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour Dried Onion, Dried Gaic, Hydrolyzed Soy Caraway, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Protein, Rye Flour, Fumaric Acid, Citric Acid, Flavor, Sodium Diacetate. Freshnatural CONTAINS WHEAT AND SOY INGREDIENTS Guanylate, Paprika Extracti by BHT. D CO D BY GENERAL MILLS SALES, INC., MINNEAPO Preserve
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe: 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: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Chex mix
- Barcode
- 0016000214941
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe rank on ingredient safety?
Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chex Mix Snack Mix Traditional Original Recipe's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
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