Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso
by Tostitos
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400278362 · Tostitos · Dairies. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso by Tostitos scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with Water, Jalapeno Peppers, Diced Tomatoes In Tomato Juice. 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 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
50/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00278362 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso label screening desk
8 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00278362 · 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 Chips, Hot Wings · Nearest score peer is Potato Chips, Hot Wings 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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 23,001 products we've scored in the Dairies category, the average safety score is 97.8/100. Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso scores 47.8 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 97.8/100), 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 Dairies products
Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% of the 21,438 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
- 120 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 2,805 products (13%)
- 4–6
- 4,714 products (22%)
- 6–8
- 2,694 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 1,996 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 1,884 products (9%)
- 12–14
- 1,734 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 1,639 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 1,261 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 841 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 481 products (2%)
- 22–24
- 303 products (1%)
- 24–26
- 228 products (1%)
- 26–28
- 151 products (1%)
- 28–30
- 122 products (1%)
- 30–32
- 115 products (1%)
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- 81 products (0%)
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- 57 products (0%)
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- 45 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 33 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 134 products (1%)
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 21,438 Dairies 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 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, Jalapeno Peppers, Diced Tomatoes In Tomato Juice, Modified Corn Starch, Sunflower Oil And/Or Canola Oil, Maltodextrin (Made From Corn And Potato), Monterey Jack Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), White Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Red Bell Peppers, Queso Quesadilla Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes, Artificial Color), And Less Than 2% Of The Following: Queso Asadero Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Natural Flavors, Whey, Skim Milk, Whey Protein Concentrate, Yeast Extract, Salt, Milk Protein Concentrate, Onion, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Datem, Garlic Powder, Sodium Phosphate, And Artificial Color (Yellow 5, Yellow 6).
Other products containing Made From Corn And Potato
Made From Corn And Potato is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Tostitos
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso
Neighbours outside Tostitos near Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tostitos; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 32 on 0028400278362).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0028400278362).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Mexican Style Dip, 4 Cheese Queso'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 0028400278362: 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.