Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe
Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe by Chex has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers
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 Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe, 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 Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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, folic acid), Vegetable Oil (soybean, high oleic sodan high oleic canola, high oleic sunflower, fractiona palm, palm den and/or palm), Rye Flour, Sugar. Contains 2% or less of al Yeast, Maltodextrin, Baking Soda, Spice, Dextrose, Carlo Distilled Monoglycerides, Malted Barley Extract, Barley Ma Autolyzed Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour, Trisodium Phosphate, Calcu Carbonate, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Pre Flour, Fumaric Acid, Citric Acid, Caraway, Disodium Inosinate Disodium Guanylate, Paprika Extract (color), Natural Flavor, Sodium Diacetate. Freshness Preserved by BHT. CONTAINS WHEAT AND SOY INGREDIENTS.
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chex 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Chex
- Barcode
- 0016000122505
- 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 Traditional Original Recipe rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.3/5, Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe sits ahead of 62% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe's 4.3/5 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 4.3/5 average places Chex Mix Traditional Original Recipe 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.