Funyuns flamin hot
by Fritolay
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400258890 · Fritolay. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Funyuns flamin hot by Fritolay scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 41-component record, beginning with Enriched Corn Meal, Corn Meal, Ferrous Sulfate. 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 41 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0028400258890
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
00258890 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Funyuns flamin hot label screening desk
12 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 40). Source sheet 00258890 · 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: Potato Crisps, Flamin' Hot · Nearest score peer is Potato Crisps, Flamin' Hot 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
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
Funyuns flamin hot lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ingredients: enriched corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamin mononitpate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetab oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflo ea oil), salt, and less than 2% of the following: corn starch, corn flour, buttermilk, sugar, monosodium glutamate, yeast extract, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), artificial color (red 40 lake, yellow lake), citric acid, whey, onion owder, maltodextrin (made from corn), lactose,garlic powder, natural and artificial flavor, skim milk, sodium diacetate, gum arabic, and onion extracts, contains milk ingredients, ge 0 frito-lay, inc plano, tx 75024-4099 o 1987 frito-lay north america, inc, frito lay lue* 8% 5% visit our website @fritolay,com 0% find us on: f 3% cuitalay 1aceboo
More from Fritolay
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Funyuns flamin hot
Neighbours outside Fritolay near Funyuns flamin hot's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Fritolay; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 41 on 0028400258890).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0028400258890).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 40 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Funyuns flamin hot's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 40. Open Red 40
- Compare Funyuns flamin hot'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 0028400258890: 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.