Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper
Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper by Kroger has 2 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. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Dairies / Fermented foods / Fermented milk products / Cheeses
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 Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper, 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 Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper 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
Pepper jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, jalapeno peppers, salt, enzymes), pasteurized process cheese food with jalapeno peppers (monterey jack cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], swiss cheese [pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes. aged over 60 days], cream, jalapeno peppers, sodium citrate water, salt, pimentos sorbic acid [preservative], oleoresin capsicum), potato starch, corn starch, dextrose and calcium sulfate (added to prevent caking), natamycin (a natural mold inhibitor).
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110501691
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper 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.
What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 Kroger, hot pepper cheese blend, hot pepper 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.