Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch
Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch by Pringles has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 out of 5, in line with 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 in line with 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. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch 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 Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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 (contains one or more of the following: corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and/or sunflower oil), cornstarch, degerminated yellow corn flour, rice flour, maltodextrin, mono - and diglycerides, salt, contains 2% or less of garlic powder, whey solids, dextrose, monosodium glutamate, tomato powder, sodium diacetate, onion powder, yeast extract, buttermilk, cayenne pepper sauce (aged red peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic), citric acid, sodium caseinate, coconut oil, natural and artificial flavors, lactic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, torula yeast, whey protein, paprika extract (color), sugar, vinegar, spice, wheat dextrose.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch: 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: 4.1/5.
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Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Brand
- Pringles
- Barcode
- 0038000848193
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.1/5, Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch sits ahead of 58% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.1/5 rating on Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Pringles, potato crisps, buffalo ranch, buffalo ranch's mapped ingredients average out to 4.1/5, 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.