Doritos NOVA 4

Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime

Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime: 4.1/5 ingredient safety

Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime by Doritos has 7 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 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

Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime 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). 7 of its 7 tracked ingredients are 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 Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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

4.1
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.1 out of 5
Based on 7 tracked ingredients
7
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
6
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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 corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (corn canola, and/or sunflower oil), and less than 2% of spices (including red peppers), salt, sugar, citric acid, maltodextrin (made from corn), malic acid, sodium diacetate, monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, onion powder, natural flavors (contains milk), corn syrup solids, maltodextrin (made from potato), garlic powder, artificial color (red 40 lake), potassium salt, tartaric acid, disodium guanylate, and disodium inosinate. contains milk ingredients.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime: 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.

Product Details

Brand
Doritos
Barcode
0028400731522
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4.1/5, Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime sits ahead of 58% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.1/5 rating on Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime?

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 4.1/5 average places Doritos Dinamita Sticks Tangy Fiery Lime 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.