Pepper jack pretzel bites
Open Food Facts label for barcode 4099100131987 · Aldi Appetitos · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pepper jack pretzel bites by Aldi Appetitos scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 52 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 52-component record, beginning with Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 52 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00131987 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pepper jack pretzel bites label screening desk
14 of 52 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sorbic Acid). Source sheet 00131987 · 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: cheddar filled pretzel bites · Nearest score peer is cheddar filled pretzel bites 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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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
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. Pepper jack pretzel bites scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products
Pepper jack pretzel bites lists 52 ingredients on its label
52 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 81,477 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 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
Full Ingredient List
ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), JALAPENO CHEESE SAUCE FILLING (WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], MONTEREY JACK CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES] CANOLA OIL, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, NONFAT MILK, JALAPENO PEPPER PUREE [JALAPENO PEPPERS, VINEGAR, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORING], SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM ALGINATE, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE]), WATER, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE TOPPING (MONTEREY JACK AND AMERICAN CHEESE BLEND [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], CREAM, ENZYME MODIFIED PARMESAN CHEESE FLAVOR, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SORBIC ACID), JALAPENO PEPPERS (FRESH JALAPENO PEPPERS, WATER, DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM | BENZOATE), DOUGH CONDITIONER (WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, MALT BARLEY FLOUR, WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM SULFATE, SOYBEAN OIL, VEGETABLE PROTEIN [CORN-BASED]), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SUGAR, YEAST, SALT, % CANOLA OIL, BICARBONATES AND CARBONATES OF SODA. CONTAINS: MILK, WHEAT. e* % %
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Pepper jack pretzel bites
Neighbours outside Aldi Appetitos with screening scores in the same high band as Pepper jack pretzel bites (100/100 here). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Aldi Appetitos; 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 (52 on 4099100131987).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Pepper jack pretzel bites has a longer ingredient list than 96% of its Snacks category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Sorbic Acid first, then work through the remaining 52 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 4099100131987: 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.