Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit
by Taco Bell
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021000046898 · Taco Bell · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit by Taco Bell scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 25 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 25-component label is layered, beginning with Corn, Corn Oil Or Canola Oil, Sugar. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 25 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00046898 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit label screening desk
8 of 25 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00046898 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Mayo, Bacon · Nearest score peer is Mayo, Bacon at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit scores 4.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 90.9/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Cooking helpers products
Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit lists 25 ingredients on its label
25 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 36 products (2%)
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- 40 and above
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Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,898 Cooking helpers products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 25 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cinnamon Tortilla Chips: Corn, Corn Oil Or Canola Oil, Sugar, Cinnamon, Salt, Caramel Sauce: Corn Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk (Skim Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup), Dried Corn Syrup, Sugar, Water, Butter (Cream, Salt), Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Pectin, Mono - And Diglycerides, Xanthan Gum, Artificial Flavor, Toffee-Flavored Bits: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cornstarch, Artificial Flavor, Confectioner'S Glaze (Ethanol, Shellac, Corn Protein, Acetylated Monoglycerides), Carnauba Wax, Caramel Color.
Other products containing Corn Oil Or Canola Oil
Corn Oil Or Canola Oil is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit
Neighbours outside Taco Bell with screening scores in the same high band as Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Taco Bell; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 25 on 0021000046898).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (25 on 0021000046898).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 25-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Cinnamon Nachos Dessert Kit's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0021000046898: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.