Crispy corn snacks
Crispy corn snacks by Cheerios has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Corn chips
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 Crispy corn snacks, 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 Crispy corn snacks sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - 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
degermed yellow corn meal, vegetable oil (coconut and/or palm kernel), sugar, salt, maltodextrin, contains 2% or less of: whey powder, monosodium glutamate, buttermilk powder, baking soda, dried garlic, dried cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), dextrose, tomato powder, spices, dried onion, citric acid, dried enzyme modified romano cheese (made from cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), color (paprika extract, red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake, annatto extract, and turmeric extract), enzyme modified butter, disodium phosphate, natural and artificial flavor, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, nonfat dry milk, butter (cream, salt), freshness preserved by bht,
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Crispy corn snacks: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Cheerios
- Barcode
- 0016000462946
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Crispy corn snacks rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Crispy corn snacks's 3.8/5 average puts it in the lower 84%, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.8/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Crispy corn snacks's mapped ingredients average out to 3.8/5, which is 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.