Honey BBQ
by Sun Chips
Open Food Facts label for barcode 53661210 · Sun Chips · Chips. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Honey BBQ by Sun Chips scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 23 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 23-component label is layered, beginning with Whole Corn, Vegetable Oil, Organic Sunflower. 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 23 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 53661210
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
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
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
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.
53661210 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Honey BBQ label screening desk
3 of 23 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Dextrose). Source sheet 53661210 · 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: Organic Teether Crackers · Nearest score peer is Organic Teether Crackers 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.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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 91 products we've scored in the Chips category, the average safety score is 94.9/100. Honey BBQ scores 5.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 94.9/100), 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 Chips products
Honey BBQ lists 23 ingredients on its label
23 69th percentile a longer ingredient list than 69% of the 68 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 2–4
- 2 products (3%)
- 4–6
- 3 products (4%)
- 6–8
- 7 products (10%)
- 8–10
- 2 products (3%)
- 10–12
- 5 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 4 products (6%)
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- 6 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 8 products (12%)
- 18–20
- 2 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 5 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 5 products (7%)
- 24–26
- 3 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 2 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 4 products (6%)
- 30–32
- 3 products (4%)
- 34–36
- 1 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 1 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 5 products (7%)
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 68 Chips 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
WHOLE CORN, VEGETABLE OIL (SUNFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA OIL), WHOLE WHEAT, BROWN RICE FLOUR, WHOLE OAT FLOUR, SUGAR, AND LESS THAN 2% OF CORN MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, DEXTROSE, ONION POWDER, TOMATO POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, PAPRIKA, SPICES, NATURAL FLAVORS, POTASSIUM SALT, VINEGAR, PAPRIKA EXTRACTS, STEVIA LEAF EXTRACT, AND HONEY
Other products containing And Less Than 2% Of Corn Maltodextrin
And Less Than 2% Of Corn Maltodextrin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 12 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Honey BBQ
Neighbours outside Sun Chips with screening scores in the same high band as Honey BBQ (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Sun Chips; 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 (23 on 53661210).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Dextrose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Honey BBQ's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 23-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Dextrose. Open Dextrose
- Compare Honey BBQ's 0 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 53661210: 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.