Cheese Balls Red Hot
by Utz
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041780353009 · Utz. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cheese Balls Red Hot by Utz scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 39 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 39-component record, beginning with Degerminated Corn Meal, Vegetable Oil, Cottonseed Oil. 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 39 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0041780353009
- 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
37/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
80353009 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cheese Balls Red Hot label screening desk
13 of 39 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 80353009 · 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: Assorted Chocolates · Nearest score peer is Assorted Chocolates 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.
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
Cheese Balls Red Hot lists 39 ingredients on its label
39 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 39 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Degerminated Corn Meal, Vegetable Oil (Contains One Or More Of The Following: Cottonseed Oil, Com Oil, Sunflower Oil, Canola Oil And/Or Soybean Oil), Whey, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Salt, Semisoft Cheese (Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Whey Protein Concentrate, Citric Acid, Buttermilk Solids, Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Monosodium Glutamate, Milkfat, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Sodium Phosphate, FD&C Red 40 Lake, FD&C Yellow 6 Lake, Natural Flavors, Lactic Acid, Yellow 6, Sodium Diacetate, Garlic Powder, Butter (Cream, Salt), Extractives Of Paprika, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Yellow 5, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Artificial Flavor, Enzymes. CONTAINS MILK Made in a peanut and tree nut free facility. B Find Utz on social media @utzsnacks Scan here for more food information or call 1-855-850-2065.
Other products containing Degerminated Corn Meal
Degerminated Corn Meal is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Utz
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Cheese Balls Red Hot
Neighbours outside Utz near Cheese Balls Red Hot's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Utz; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 39 on 0041780353009).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (39 on 0041780353009).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cheese Balls Red Hot's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 39-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Cheese Balls Red Hot'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 0041780353009: 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.