Caution

Reese’s Cookies

by Chips Ahoy!

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0044000024567 · Chips Ahoy! · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0044000024567 · Serving size 2 cookies (30 g)

The verdict

Reese’s Cookies by Chips Ahoy! scores 80/100 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 Unbleached Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. 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.

80/100
Caution safety score
2
Few flagged · of 39 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

48/100

Grade D

Ingredient Safety

80/100

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.

00024567 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Reese’s Cookies label screening desk

SCORE-CAUT 80/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 39 ing. REG-PART 31% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 11% LEAD-FLAG TBHQ PHOTO-FINISH Small Curd Cottage · ±0 BOOK-OFF …024567 · July 2026

12 of 39 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 00024567 · 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: Small Curd Cottage Cheese · Nearest score peer is Small Curd Cottage Cheese 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.

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

1. Reese’s Cookies: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Reese’s Cookies80/1002. Small Curd Cottage Cheese: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Small Curd Cottage Cheese80/1003. Cottage Cheese: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Cottage Cheese80/1004. Cottage Cheese: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Cottage Cheese80/1005. Nabisco easy cheese pasteurized cheese snack bacon 1x8.000 oz: 80/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Nabisco easy cheese paste…80/100
High-band neighbours for Reese’s Cookies (80/100) outside Chips Ahoy!.
Chart values as text

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

Reese’s Cookies
80/100
Small Curd Cottage Cheese
80/100
Cottage Cheese
80/100
Cottage Cheese
80/100
Nabisco easy cheese pasteurized cheese snack bacon 1x8.000 oz
80/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Reese’s Cookies scores 6.1 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products

Reese’s Cookies lists 39 ingredients on its label

39 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 81,477 products we track

0–2: 275 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 2,901 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 4,248 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 5,408 products (7%). Below this entry. 8–10: 5,486 products (7%). Below this entry. 10–12: 5,840 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 6,252 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 6,724 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 6,221 products (8%). Below this entry. 18–20: 5,168 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 4,508 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 3,809 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 3,567 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 2,829 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 2,282 products (3%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,905 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,715 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 1,572 products (2%). Below this entry. 36–38: 1,417 products (2%). Below this entry. 38–40: 1,284 products (2%). This entry sits in this band. 40–42: 8,066 products (10%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Snacks 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

81,477 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 39 (89th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
275 products (0%)
2–4
2,901 products (4%)
4–6
4,248 products (5%)
6–8
5,408 products (7%)
8–10
5,486 products (7%)
10–12
5,840 products (7%)
12–14
6,252 products (8%)
14–16
6,724 products (8%)
16–18
6,221 products (8%)
18–20
5,168 products (6%)
20–22
4,508 products (6%)
22–24
3,809 products (5%)
24–26
3,567 products (4%)
26–28
2,829 products (3%)
28–30
2,282 products (3%)
30–32
1,905 products (2%)
32–34
1,715 products (2%)
34–36
1,572 products (2%)
36–38
1,417 products (2%)
38–40
1,284 products (2%)
40 and above
8,066 products (10%)

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 81,477 Snacks 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 80/100 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.

1
Unbleached Enriched Flour
2
Wheat Flour
3
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
4
Reduced Iron
5
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
8
Palm Oil
9
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
10
Reese's Peanut Butter Baking Cup
11
Milk Chocolate
12
Cocoa Butter
13
Milk
14
Natural Chocolate
15
Soy Lecithin
16
Peanut Butter Chips
17
Palm Kernel And Soybean Oil
18
Corn Syrup Solids
19
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
20
Reduced Protein Whey
21
Palm Kernel Oil
22
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
23
Artificial Flavor
24
Semisweet Chocolate Chips
25
Reese's Peanut Butter Flavored Chips
26
Partially Defatted Peanuts
27
Molasses
28
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Pieces
29
Nonfat Milk
30
Milkfat
31
Lactose
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
32
polyglycerol polyricinoleate - emulsifer
33
Peanuts
34
TBHQ
Preservative
Avoid Approved (preservative, 21 CFR 172.185)
35
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
36
Whey
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FORMULATION AID, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
37
Baking Soda
38
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
39
Artificial Flavor. Tree Nuts

Full Ingredient List

Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {vitamin b1}, riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid), palm oil, sugar, reese's peanut butter baking cup (milk chocolate {sugar, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate, soy lecithin, artificial flavor}, peanut butter chips {partially defatted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, corn syrup solids, dextrose, reduced protein whey, palm kernel oil, salt, artificial flavor, soy lecithin}, palm kernel oil), semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, milk, soy lecithin), reese's peanut butter flavored chips (partially defatted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, corn syrup solids, dextrose, reduced protein whey, palm kernel oil, salt, artificial flavor, soy lecithin), molasses, salt, reese's peanut butter cup pieces (milk chocolate {sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nonfat milk, milkfat, lactose, soy lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate - emulsifer}, peanuts, sugar, dextrose, salt, tbhq, citric acid), whey, baking soda, soy lecithin, caramel color, artificial flavor. tree nuts.

Categories

Snacks Sweet snacks Biscuits and cakes Biscuits

High-score cross-brand comparables for Reese’s Cookies

Neighbours outside Chips Ahoy! with screening scores in the same high band as Reese’s Cookies (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Chips Ahoy!; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from Reese’s Cookies'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 TBHQ. Open TBHQ
  • Compare Reese’s Cookies'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 0044000024567: 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.