Concern

Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips

by Doritos

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400697460 · Doritos · Chips and fries. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0028400697460 · Serving size 1 package

The verdict

Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips by Doritos scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 28 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 28-component label is layered, beginning with Corn, Vegetable Oil, Canola. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

60/100
Concern safety score
2
Few flagged · of 28 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
0028400697460
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

43/100

Grade D

Ingredient Safety

60/100

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.

00697460 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 60/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-LAYERED 28 ing. REG-PART 36% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 16% LEAD-FLAG Blue 2 PHOTO-FINISH Smoked Atlantic Nova · ±0 BOOK-OFF …697460 · July 2026

10 of 28 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 2). Source sheet 00697460 · 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: Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon · Nearest score peer is Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon 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.

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.

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

1. Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips: 60/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ…60/1002. Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon: 60/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Smoked Atlantic Nova Salm…60/1003. Lay's imp: 60/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Lay's imp60/1004. Friendship Exchange With Candy Snowflakes: 60/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Friendship Exchange With …60/1005. Unicorn With Peppermint Candy Canes, Unicorn With Peppermint: 60/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Unicorn With Peppermint C…60/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips (60/100 on 28 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips
60/100
Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon
60/100
Lay's imp
60/100
Friendship Exchange With Candy Snowflakes
60/100
Unicorn With Peppermint Candy Canes, Unicorn With Peppermint
60/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 2,997 products we've scored in the Chips and fries category, the average safety score is 93/100. Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips scores 33 points below that category average (60/100 vs. 93/100), 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 and fries products

Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips lists 28 ingredients on its label

28 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 63 products we track

2–4: 4 products (6%). Below this entry. 4–6: 6 products (10%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5 products (8%). Below this entry. 8–10: 4 products (6%). Below this entry. 10–12: 7 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 8 products (13%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5 products (8%). Below this entry. 20–22: 3 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1 products (2%). Below this entry. 24–26: 5 products (8%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 3 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 30–32: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 2 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 2 42 every published Chips and fries product, bucketed by value

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

63 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 28 (84th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

2–4
4 products (6%)
4–6
6 products (10%)
6–8
5 products (8%)
8–10
4 products (6%)
10–12
7 products (11%)
12–14
3 products (5%)
14–16
8 products (13%)
18–20
5 products (8%)
20–22
3 products (5%)
22–24
1 products (2%)
24–26
5 products (8%)
26–28
2 products (3%)
28–30
3 products (5%)
30–32
2 products (3%)
32–34
1 products (2%)
34–36
2 products (3%)
40 and above
2 products (3%)

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 63 Chips and fries products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Corn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, soybean and/or sunflower oil), and less than 2% of corn maltodextrin, salt, tomato powder, sodium diacetate, sugar, dextrose, monosodium glutamate, onion powder, spices, molasses, yeast extract, paprika, sodium acetate, natural flavors (contains milk syrup solids, artificial color [yellow 6 lake, blue 2 lake]), garlic powder, malic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, stevia leaf extract.

Categories

Chips and fries

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips

Neighbours outside Doritos near Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Doritos; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Blue 2 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 28-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 2. Open Blue 2
  • Compare Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored Tortilla Chips'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 0028400697460: 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.