Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch
by Doritos
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400638173 · Doritos · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch by Doritos scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 77 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 6 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 77-component record, beginning with Monterey Jack Cheese, Cultured Milk, Salt. 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
- 6
- Many flagged · of 77 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
8/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
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.
00638173 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch label screening desk
26 of 77 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00638173 · 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: Flamin' Hot Crunchy · Nearest score peer is Flamin' Hot Crunchy 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.
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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch scores 92.9 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch lists 77 ingredients on its label
77 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 319 products (5%)
- 36–38
- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (6 flagged of 77 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Monterey Jack Cheese (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Bleached Wheat Flour, Water, Yellow Corn Meal, Soybean Oil, Cream Cheese (Pasteurized Milk And Cream, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Locust Bean Gum), Yellow Corn Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Less Than 2% Of The Following: Semi-Soft Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Corn Germ, Cream, Buttermilk, Cultured Buttermilk, Whey, Tomato Powder, Salt, Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Monosodium Glutamate, Corn Starch, Potato Starch, Modified Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Dextrin, Corn Syrup, Enriched Wheat Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Corn Cereal, Garlic Powder, Maltodextrin (Made From Corn), Onion Powder, Reduced Lactose Whey, Whole Milk, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Canola Oil, Spices, Malic Acid, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Blue Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Artificial Color (Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 6 Lake, Blue 1), Palm Oil, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Sweet Cream Buttermilk, Butter (Cream, Salt), Sugar, Yeast, Yeast Extract, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Dextrose, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate. Baking Soda), Xanthan Gum, Modified Cellulose, Cellulose Gum, And Eggs.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch
Neighbours outside Doritos in the same lower screening band as Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Doritos; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (6 flagged of 77 on 0028400638173).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (77 on 0028400638173).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 77-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Breaded Cheese Snacks, Cool Ranch's 6 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 0028400638173: 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.