Safe

Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles

by Tostitos

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400790635 · Tostitos · Chips. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0028400790635 · Serving size 6 chips (28 g)

The verdict

Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles by Tostitos scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 29-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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 29 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
D
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

63/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

D

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.

00790635 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 29 ing. REG-SPARSE 7% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-MID Len top 21% LEAD-FLAG Sugar PHOTO-FINISH Lays Kettle Cooked · ±0 BOOK-OFF …790635 · July 2026

2 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sugar). Source sheet 00790635 · 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: Lays Kettle Cooked 40% Less Fat · Nearest score peer is Lays Kettle Cooked 40% Less Fat at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.

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. Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Mexican Street Corn Flavo…100/1002. Lays Kettle Cooked 40% Less Fat: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Lays Kettle Cooked 40% Le…100/1003. White Cheddar Nacho: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. White Cheddar Nacho100/1004. Baked Not Fried: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Baked Not Fried100/1005. Aged Cheddar & Black Pepper Chips: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Aged Cheddar & Black Pepp…100/100
High-band neighbours for Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles (100/100) outside Tostitos.
Chart values as text

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

Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles
100/100
Lays Kettle Cooked 40% Less Fat
100/100
White Cheddar Nacho
100/100
Baked Not Fried
100/100
Aged Cheddar & Black Pepper Chips
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 91 products we've scored in the Chips category, the average safety score is 94.9/100. Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles scores 5.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 94.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Chips products

Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles lists 29 ingredients on its label

29 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 68 products we track

2–4: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 4–6: 3 products (4%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7 products (10%). Below this entry. 8–10: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 4 products (6%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 8 products (12%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 5 products (7%). Below this entry. 22–24: 5 products (7%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 4 products (6%). This entry sits in this band. 30–32: 3 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 5 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 2 42 every published Chips 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

68 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 29 (79th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

2–4
2 products (3%)
4–6
3 products (4%)
6–8
7 products (10%)
8–10
2 products (3%)
10–12
5 products (7%)
12–14
4 products (6%)
14–16
6 products (9%)
16–18
8 products (12%)
18–20
2 products (3%)
20–22
5 products (7%)
22–24
5 products (7%)
24–26
3 products (4%)
26–28
2 products (3%)
28–30
4 products (6%)
30–32
3 products (4%)
34–36
1 products (1%)
38–40
1 products (1%)
40 and above
5 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. The comparison here runs against the 68 Chips 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 WHEY, SALT., CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SPICES, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), SOUR CREAM (CULTURED CREAM, MILK) GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, SUGAR, RED AND GREEN BELL PEPPER POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, LIME JUICE, SKIM MILK, VINEGAR, BUTTERMILK, NATURAL FLAVORS, TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR), AND PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR). CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS.

Categories

Chips

High-score cross-brand comparables for Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles

Neighbours outside Tostitos with screening scores in the same high band as Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Tostitos; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Sugar is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 29-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sugar. Open Sugar
  • Compare Mexican Street Corn Flavored Triangles's 0 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 0028400790635: 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.