Tequeños Cheese Sticks
by El Latino
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0833911003538 · El Latino · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tequeños Cheese Sticks by El Latino scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 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 32-component record, beginning with White Cheese, Pasteurized Milk, Salt. 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.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 32 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
60/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 3
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.
11003538 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tequeños Cheese Sticks label screening desk
9 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Bromate). Source sheet 11003538 · 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: NyQuil VapoCOOL · Nearest score peer is NyQuil VapoCOOL 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.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Tequeños Cheese Sticks scores 32.9 points below that category average (60/100 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
Tequeños Cheese Sticks lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 42nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 42% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
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- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
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- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 271 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 294 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Filling: white cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, calcium, chloride and enzymes) dough: flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, potassium bromate, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, enzyme, folic acid), water, vegetable shortening (beef fat, cotton seed oil, propylene glycol, propyl gallate, citric acid and dymetil polysiloxane), eggs, milk (nonfat dry milk, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3), salt, sugar and baking powder (baking soda, corn starch, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate) and potassium sorbate.
Other products containing White Cheese
White Cheese is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from El Latino
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Tequeños Cheese Sticks
Neighbours outside El Latino near Tequeños Cheese Sticks's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within El Latino; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 32 on 0833911003538).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0833911003538).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Potassium Bromate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tequeños Cheese Sticks's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Potassium Bromate. Open Potassium Bromate
- Compare Tequeños Cheese Sticks'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 0833911003538: 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.