Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones
Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones by Tom's has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.5 out of 5, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Meals / Meals with meat / Pork meals
How This Score Is Built
Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.5 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
Pork rinds, salt, dextrose, spices (including chili pepper), torula yeast, maltodextrin, paprika, monosodium glutamate, onion powder, garlic powder, extractives of paprika, yellow 6 lake, natural flavor, caramel color, red 40 lake.
Product Details
- Brand
- Tom's
- Barcode
- 0021900982258
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 2.5/5, Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2.5/5 rating on Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Pork Skins Hot Flavored Chicharrones's 2.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Caution 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.