Hidden Valley The Original Ranch
Hidden Valley The Original Ranch by Bugles has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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 Hidden Valley The Original Ranch, 2 of its 2 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 Hidden Valley The Original Ranch sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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, palm, and/or palm kernel), sugar, dried buttermilk, salt, maltodextrin, monoglycerides, baking soda, dextrose, monosodium glutamate, citric acid, onion powder, parsley, modified corn starch, disodium guanylate and inosinate, natural and artificial flavor
Product Details
- Brand
- Bugles
- Barcode
- 0016000189096
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Hidden Valley The Original Ranch rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Hidden Valley The Original Ranch's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Hidden Valley The Original Ranch's 3.5/5 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 3.5/5 average places Hidden Valley The Original Ranch in the Mixed Evidence 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.