Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix
Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix by Chex mix has 7 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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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. 7 of 7 ingredients tracked for Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix 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 Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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 flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), degermed yellow corn meal, whole wheat, vegetable oil (soybean, canola, sunflower, and/or rice bran), sugar, salt. contains 2% or less of: maltodextrin, whey powder, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, garlic powder, dried jalapeno pepper, yeast, buttermilk powder, dried cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), color (annatto extract, paprika extract, yellow 5, yellow 6, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, and turmeric extract), baking soda, tomato powder, barley malt syrup, butter concentrate (cream, salt, natural flavor), yeast extract, spice, natural and artificial flavor, distilled monoglycerides, trisodium phosphate, yellow corn flour, calcium carbonate, citric acid, corn syrup solids, sodium acid pyrophosphate, cheddar cheese powder (milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes, disodium phosphate), sour cream solids (sour cream [cream, cultures, lactic acid], culture
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix: 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 7.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Chex mix
- Barcode
- 0016000505827
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix rank on ingredient safety?
Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix scores 4.3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 62% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Mix jalapeno cheddar spicy snack mix's mapped ingredients average out to 4.3/5, which is 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.