Delimex Nutri-Score C NOVA 4

Taquitos

Taquitos: 4/5 ingredient safety

Taquitos by Delimex has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Frozen foods

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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Taquitos has 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 Taquitos 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score

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

Tortilla (corn masa flour [contains lime], water, salt, guar gum, sodium alginate), cooked beef with broth (cooked beef, salt), water, ground tomatoes (ground tomatoes, tomato puree, salt), contains less than 2% of modified food starch, beef base (cooked beef, yeast extract, salt, maltodextrin, cane sugar, beef broth, onion powder, potato flour, caramel color, garlic powder, spice extractives, natural flavor), garlic puree, soy protein isolate, cornstarch, salt, chipotle chile pepper powder, vinegar powder (corn maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar, modified food starch), granulated onion, modified cellulose, sugar, spices, grill flavor (canola oil, sunflower oil, natural flavors).

Product Details

Brand
Delimex
Barcode
0017696402179
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Taquitos's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Taquitos sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Taquitos's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.