Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn
Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn by Smartfood has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.4 out of 5, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.28 points above 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
Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn 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). 5 of its 5 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 Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.4 Top 31% higher than 69% 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
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
Popcorn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey, natural flavors, onion powder, salt, buttermilk, romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, corn maltodextrin, potassium salt, tomato powder, spices, dextrose, garlic powder, lactose, red and green bell pepper powder, skim milk, citric acid, sugar, paprika extract (color), vegetable juice (color), annatto extract (color).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn: 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: 4.4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Smartfood
- Barcode
- 0028400756655
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.4/5, Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn sits ahead of 69% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.28 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Popcorn's mapped ingredients average out to 4.4/5, 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.