Chicken & Cheese Flautas
Chicken & Cheese Flautas by Don Miguel has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 D.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Frozen-entrees
How This Score Is Built
Chicken & Cheese Flautas 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 Chicken & Cheese Flautas 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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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
FILLING (CHICKEN LEG MEAT, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, MICROBIAL ENZYMES, ANNATTO OR BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), (POTATO STARCH, CORN STARCH, CELLULOSE TO PREVENT CAKING), NATAMYCIN (A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR)], GREEN CHILE PEPPERS [GREEN CHILE PEPPERS, CITRIC ACID [TO ACIDIFY]T, WATER, MODIFIED FOOD STAIRCH, TOMATILLOS TOMATILLOS, CITRIC ACID [TO ACIDIFY]], ONIONS, SEASONING BLEND (SALT, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SAFFLOWER OIL, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, LACTIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE & DISODIUM GUANYLATE), SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORING (YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT), SPICES, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF OREGANO, CHICKEN BROTH, DRIED YEAST, DEFATTED SOY FLOURI, TEXTURED WHEAT PROTEIN (WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, TETRAPOTASSIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM CARBONATE, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS), FIRE ROASTED GREEN CHILE PEPPERS [GREEN CHILE PEPPERS, CITRIC ACID {TO ACIDIFY]], JALAPEÑO PEPPERS (JALAPEÑO PEPPERS, SALT, ACETIC ACID (ACIDULA
Product Details
- Brand
- Don Miguel
- Barcode
- 0027086387634
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
Find Products
Frequently asked questions
Where does Chicken & Cheese Flautas rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Chicken & Cheese Flautas sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Chicken & Cheese Flautas?
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 Chicken & Cheese Flautas in the Generally Safe 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.