Chicken & Cheese Burritos
Chicken & Cheese Burritos by Don Miguel has 5 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
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. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Chicken & Cheese Burritos 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 Chicken & Cheese Burritos 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
- Sodium Phosphates - 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
chicken breast with rib meat, pasteurized process Monterey Jack cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), cream, water, sodium phosphates, powdered cellulose (to prevent caking), salt, sorbic acid (preservative), natamycin (preservative), water, roasted red bell peppers, roasted onions, pinto beans, modified food starch, contains 2% or less of: vinegar, chicken broth flavor mix (hydrolyzed corn gluten, soy protein and wheat gluten, salt, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, dried chicken meat, torula yeast, soy flour), green bell peppers, salt, granulated garlic, guar gum, tortilla (wheat flour enriched wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, water, soybean oil, salt, vital wheat gluten, guar gum)
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chicken & Cheese Burritos: 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: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Don Miguel
- Barcode
- 0027086376546
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Chicken & Cheese Burritos above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Chicken & Cheese Burritos sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chicken & Cheese Burritos's 4/5 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 4/5 average places Chicken & Cheese Burritos 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.