Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar
by Cheez-It
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0024100126583 · Cheez-It · Chips. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar by Cheez-It scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 34-component record, beginning with Degerminated Yellow Corn Meal, Vegetable Oil, Soybean. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 34 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
00126583 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar label screening desk
9 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 1). Source sheet 00126583 · 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: Alloy Series Spiked Orange Soda · Nearest score peer is Alloy Series Spiked Orange Soda at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
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 91 products we've scored in the Chips category, the average safety score is 94.9/100. Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar scores 44.9 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 94.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Chips products
Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar lists 34 ingredients on its label
34 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% of the 68 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 2–4
- 2 products (3%)
- 4–6
- 3 products (4%)
- 6–8
- 7 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 2 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 5 products (7%)
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- 4 products (6%)
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- 6 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (12%)
- 18–20
- 2 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 5 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (7%)
- 24–26
- 3 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 2 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 4 products (6%)
- 30–32
- 3 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 1 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 1 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 5 products (7%)
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 68 Chips 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 34 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Degerminated yellow corn meal, vegetable oil (soybean, nigh oleic soybean, corn, and/or canola with TBHQ for freshness), Cheddar cheese (milK, salt, enzymes)・ Contains 2% or less of whey, salt, monosodium glutamate, buttermilk, jalapeno pepper, onion powder, dextrose, garlic powder, citric acid, lactic acid, oat fiber, low fat cheddar cheese (nonfat milk, cutures, sat, enzjmes), paprika extract color, turmeric extract color, Sodium diacetate, disodium inosinate, disodium guarylate, natural flavor, red 40, blue 1. CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS. MAY CONTAIN EGGS AND SOY.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar
Neighbours outside Cheez-It near Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Cheez-It; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 34 on 0024100126583).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (34 on 0024100126583).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 1 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 34-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 1. Open Blue 1
- Compare Crunch Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar's 2 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 0024100126583: 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.