Ranch Bugles
Ranch Bugles by Tom's, Snyder's-Lance Inc. has 7 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, 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
How This Score Is Built
Ranch Bugles 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). 7 of its 7 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 Ranch Bugles sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Vegetable Oils (Corn, Canola, Sunflower and/or Safflower), Buttermilk, Salt, Sugar, Onion Powder, Tomato Powder, Sodium Bicarbonate, Dextrose, Garlic Powder, Monosodium Glutamate, Sodium Acetate, Sour Cream Powder (Cultured Cream, Nonfat Milk), Spices, Cornstarch, Whey Protein Concentrate, Acetic Acid, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Colors (Annatto Extract, Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, Titanium Dioxide, Turmeric Extract).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ranch Bugles: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 7.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0021900982227
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Ranch Bugles's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ranch Bugles's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Ranch Bugles's 4/5 score be read?
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 4/5 average places Ranch Bugles 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.