Red Hot Chicharrones
by Mac's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0073497601517 · Mac's · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Red Hot Chicharrones by Mac's scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 20 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 20-component label is layered, beginning with Fried Pork Skins, Salt, Corn Maltodextrin. 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.
- 50/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 20 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
33/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
50/100
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.
97601517 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Red Hot Chicharrones label screening desk
5 of 20 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 97601517 · 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: Stella d'oro, breakfast treats cookies, original · Nearest score peer is Stella d'oro, breakfast treats cookies, original 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.
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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Red Hot Chicharrones scores 42.4 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Red Hot Chicharrones lists 20 ingredients on its label
20 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 11,159 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 79 products (1%)
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- 430 products (4%)
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- 612 products (5%)
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- 1,397 products (13%)
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- 1,485 products (13%)
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- 1,698 products (15%)
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- 1,463 products (13%)
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- 996 products (9%)
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- 734 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 489 products (4%)
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- 377 products (3%)
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- 277 products (2%)
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- 140 products (1%)
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- 38–40
- 50 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 238 products (2%)
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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 50/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 20 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
FRIED PORK SKINS, SALT, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, GARLIC POWDER, CHILI PEPPER, SPICES, SODIUM DIACETATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORING, PAPRIKA (COLOR), CITRIC ACID, RED 40 LAKE, WHITE VINEGAR POWDER, YELLOW 6 LAKE, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, FRIED IN RENDERED PORK FAT
Other products containing Fried In Rendered Pork Fat
Fried In Rendered Pork Fat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 18 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Red Hot Chicharrones
Neighbours outside Mac's near Red Hot Chicharrones's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Mac's; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 20 on 0073497601517).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (20 on 0073497601517).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Red Hot Chicharrones's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 20-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Red Hot Chicharrones'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 0073497601517: 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.