Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0076982196055 · La Mexicana Inc. · Mexican-dinner-mixes. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas by La Mexicana Inc. 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 Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin. 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.
82196055 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas label screening desk
12 of 29 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: L-cysteine). Source sheet 82196055 · 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: Lauri Jo's, Sweet & Spicy Onions · Nearest score peer is Lauri Jo's, Sweet & Spicy Onions 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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 935 products we've scored in the Mexican-dinner-mixes category, the average safety score is 97.6/100. Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas scores 2.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.6/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Mexican-dinner-mixes products
Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas lists 29 ingredients on its label
29 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 871 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 1 products (0%)
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- 26 products (3%)
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- 6 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 21 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 871 Mexican-dinner-mixes 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
Full Ingredient List
Bleached enriched wheat flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, non-hydrogenated canola oil and/or soybean oil, contains 2% or less: salt, monoglycerides, enzymes, sodium bicarbonate, sugar, calcium propionate, sodium aluminium sulfate, fumeric acid, sodium aluminium phosphate, potassium sorbate, wheat starch, corn starch, cellulose gum, xanthan gum, sodium stearoyl lactate, rice flour, yeast, monocalcium phosphate, l-cysteine.
Other products containing Sodium Stearoyl Lactate
Sodium Stearoyl Lactate is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 19 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas
Neighbours outside La Mexicana Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas (100/100 here). The 1 same-brand link above stay within La Mexicana Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (29 on 0076982196055).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Surito, Homestyle Flour Tortillas has a longer ingredient list than 82% of its Mexican-dinner-mixes category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open L-cysteine first, then work through the remaining 29 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0076982196055: 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.