Irish nachos
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0072714004131 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Irish nachos scores 30/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 92 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 92-component record, beginning with Water, Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour. 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.
- 30/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 92 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
28/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
30/100
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.
14004131 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Irish nachos label screening desk
31 of 92 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbitol). Source sheet 14004131 · 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
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.
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.
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.
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. Irish nachos scores 62.9 points below that category average (30/100 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
Irish nachos lists 92 ingredients on its label
92 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% 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 30/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 92 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola oil), bleached wheat flour, pasteurized process monterey jack cheese [monterey jack cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), water, cream, sodium phosphate, salt], potatoes (potatoes, dextrose, citric acid, sodium acid pyrophosphate (preservative)), dehydrated potatoes, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), yellow corn flour, modified corn starch, corn flakes (corn, sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, salt, malt flavoring, iron, thiamine hydrochloride, niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin). contains 2% or less of acetic acid, apocarotenal (color), artificial smoke flavor, bacon flakes (bacon cured with water, salt, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, sugar, dextrose, brown sugar, sodium phosphates, potassium chloride, flavoring), barley malt extract, butter (cream, salt), canola oil, caramel color, citric acid, dextrose, disodium phosphate, dried cheddar and semisoft cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), enzyme modified cheese (pasteurized milk, water, milkfat, sodium phosphate, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), garlic powder, green onions, gum arabic, jalapeno pepper, lactic acid, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate), malted barley flour, maltodextrin, methylcellulose, milk protein concentrate, natural caramelized bacon flavor, natural flavor (contains milk), natural stout beer flavor, onion powder, paprika extract (color), red bell peppers, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), sorbitol, spices, sugar, sunflower oil, trehalose, triacetin, wheat starch, whey, yeast, yeast extract, yellow 5, yellow 6.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sorbitol is the first flagged ingredient selected from Irish nachos's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 92-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sorbitol. Open Sorbitol
- Compare Irish nachos's 4 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 0072714004131: 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.