Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor
Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor by Cheetos has 16 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 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 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Meals / Pasta dishes / Pastas / Dry pastas / Instant pasta / Flavored and colored dry pastas
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 Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor, 16 of its 16 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 Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% 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
Wheat flour, whey, salt, cheddar and romano cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), sunflower oil, corn maltodextrin, modified corn starch, natural and artificial flavor, sugar, citric acid, corn syrup solids, monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, buttermilk, onion powder, whey protein concentrate, corn oil, disodium phosphate, red 40 lake, yellow 6, caramel color, yellow 5, lactose, garlic powder, hydrolyzed soy protein, sodium diacetate, guar gum, xanthan gum, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, niacinamide, iron sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor: 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: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 16.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Cheetos
- Barcode
- 0015300200234
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- Bolivia,United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.9/5, Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor sits behind 81% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.9/5 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 3.9/5 average places Mac'N Cheese Flamin' Hot Flavor 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.