Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN)
Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) by Pringles has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) 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). 4 of its 4 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 Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, WHEY, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SPICES, CITRIC ACID, ONION POWDER, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK SALT, ENZYMES), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, BLUE CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), YELLOW 5 CONTAINS MILK AND WHEAT INGREDIENTS. NGREDIENTES: PAPAS SECAS, ACEITE VEGETAL (MAÍZ, SEMILLA DE ALGODON SOYA ALTO OLEICO Y/O GIRASOL), HARINA DE MAÍZ AMARILLO DESGERMINADO, FECULA DE CONTIENE 2% 0 MENOS DE SAL, SUERO, GLUTAMATO MONOSÓDICO, ÁCIDO CITRICO MAZ HARINA DE ARROZ, MALTODEXTRINA, MONO Y DIGLICERIDOS. ESPECIAS, CEBOLLA EN POLVO, SÓLIDOS DE CULTIVADA, SAL, ENZI GUANILATO JADADE DE MAIZ QUESO CHEDDAR (LECHE DISODICO
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN): 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Pringles
- Barcode
- 0038000272264
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Hy-Vee,Walmart
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Frequently asked questions
Is Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) above or below average on ingredient safety?
Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.8/5 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 3.8/5 average places Pringles: Mexican street corn (5.5 OZ CAN) 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.