Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks
Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks by Cheetos has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
Enriched corn meal (corn meal, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), salt, yeast extract, potassium salt, corn maltodextrin, citric acid, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), natural flavors, whey, buttermilk, sugar, onion powder, spices, whey protein concentrate, garlic powder, lactic acid. Contains milk ingredients.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored 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: 4.5/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Cheetos
- Barcode
- 0028400794688
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks sits ahead of 71% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks's 4.5/5 score be read?
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 4.5/5 average places Flamin' Hot Flavored Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks 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.