Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls
by Brim's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028293022127 · Brim's. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls by Brim's scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Dv, Yellow Corn Meal, Vegetable Oil. 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 67 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0028293022127
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
3/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
93022127 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls label screening desk
17 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 93022127 · 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: Puffs hot cheese · Nearest score peer is Puffs hot cheese at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 67 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
AAVAXXXXX Sodium 300mg Cholesterol Omg Am Calories Total Fat 11g Saturated Fat 2g Trans Fat 0g % Daily 16 18% 0% Total Sugas 1g Dietary Fiber<1g Total Carbohydrate 14g 15% ༠༡ 4% 2% Includes 0g Added Sugars Protein 19 Vitamin D Omcg 0% Cabur. 10mg Iron 0mg 0% 0% 0% 0% Potassium 30mg The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes tadaily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. GREDIENTS: YELLOW CORN MEAL, VEGETABLE OIL (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: CORM CAN, OR REFINED SOYBEAN OILERY HOT SEASONING (MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, CHEDDAR AND ROMANO CHEES PASTEURIZED MILK, CT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG), WHEY, YORG ZED CORN PROTEIN RED 40 LAKE, SODIUM DIACETATE, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, CITRIC ACID, YEAST ETRA DEXTROSE, BUTTERMILK, PALM OIL, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, NATURAL FLAVORS, ONION POWDER, OCUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, BUTTER (CREAM), GARLIC POWDER, MALIC ACID, NATTO COLORI, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, LACTIC ACID, NATURAL VITAMINE (ADDED TO PRE ERVE FRESHNESS, FLAMIN HOT SEASONING (MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, CORN STARCH, MONOSODIUM GLUTA ATE (MSG), CHEDDAR & ROMANO CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYME ANNATI RED 40 LAKE, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, DEXTROSE, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, WHEY, SOUM DACETAN PALM OIL, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, YEAST EXTRACT, ONION, GARLIC, MALIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE&DISODIUM GUANYLATE, ACETIC ACID, ANNATTO EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR), BUTTERY CHEESE SEASONING (MALTODEXTRIN, WHEY, CHEDDAR AND BLUE CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ANNATTO, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES), CORN STARCH, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG), BUTTER (CREAM)], WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, LACTIC ACID, YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW SLAKE, RED 40 LAKE (COLOR) CONTAINS: MILK CONTAINS BIOENGINEERED FOOD INGREDIENTS. Mfg by Brimhall Foods P.O. Box 34185 Bartlett, TN 38184-0185 CAL H Chee Be Oth Chees Chee
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls
Neighbours outside Brim's in the same lower screening band as Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Brim's; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 67 on 0028293022127).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (67 on 0028293022127).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 67-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Fiery Hot! Cheese Balls's 4 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 0028293022127: 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.