Pringles Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce

Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce by Pringles has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 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 0.62 points below 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. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce 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, original hot sauce, original hot sauce sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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 sodium diacetate, dry hot sauce (red peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic), monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, sugar, natural and artificial flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, acetic acid, paprika extract color, red 40 lake, wheat dextrose, yellow 6 lake.

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce: 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0038000139963
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce above or below average on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.5/5, Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce sits behind 91% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Pringles, potato crisps, original hot sauce, original hot sauce's 3.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.