Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper
Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper by Doritos has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Snacks / Cereals and potatoes / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Potato crisps
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper 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 Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
CORN, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, CANOLA, SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), CORN MALTODEXTRIN, AND LESS THAN 2% OF WHEY, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CREAM, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), JALAPEÑO PEPPERS, SODIUM DIACETATE, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), POTASSIUM SALT, SPICES, BUTTERMILK, SWISS CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), ARTIFICIAL COLOR (YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 5), ONION POWDER, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, AND SOUR CREAM (CULTURED CREAM, SKIM MILK)
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Doritos
- Barcode
- 0028400772198
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper's 3.7/5 average puts it in the lower 87%, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.7/5 rating on Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Late Night Zesty Jalapeño Popper's 3.7/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.