Product Insight: Chicken & cheese taquitos, chicken & cheese
Chicken & cheese taquitos, chicken & cheese by Delimex is tracked in PlainIngredients with 2 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.5 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is C, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 2 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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 wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, cooked chicken with natural juices (chicken meat, salt), tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, citric acid, calcium chloride), monterey jack cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), soybean oil, onions, contains less than 2% of modified potato starch, salt, poblano chiles, white corn flour, modified tapioca starch, modified food starch, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, bicarbonate soda, corn starch, and monocalcium phosphate), soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), jalapeno peppers (jalapenos, vinegar, salt), chicken base (chicken meat including natural chicken juices, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, fructose, chicken fat, autolyzed yeast, dry chicken broth, dextrose, modified corn starch, onion powder, natural flavors, spices [including turmeric]), dehydrated garlic, wheat flour, cilantro, spices, modified cellulose, whey powder (milk), disodium inosinate and disodium guanyl
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Delimex
- Barcode
- 0017696407167
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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