Food · Cheetos
Cheetos Crunchy
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Low nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 28 g handful is about 151 calories and 0.5 g of salt — before you finish the bag.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Snacks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Artificial colours
Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF
The pack
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Low
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
3 additives
Planet
Heavier footprint · 40/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Palm oil, heavy processing, or farming choices that cost more than they give back.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 32/100 · nutrition low
- Nutrition quality32/100
- Ingredients51/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
This is a treat pattern. It can only scrape into low Good if the list is clean and it is not ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
A weak-ish nutrition box
Sugars are modest. Salt is high. Fat is high. A treat pattern.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Palm oil
-8High in saturated fat. Process contaminants (3-MCPD, glycidyl esters) in refined oils.
Tartrazine
-14Azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children. EFSA ADI 7.5 mg/kg.
Sunset yellow FCF
-14Azo dye associated with hypersensitivity and hyperactivity.
Monosodium glutamate
-5Flavour enhancer. Safe for most; a subset reports sensitivity.
Azo dye mix
-82 synthetic colours (the Southampton six family) sit on this pack. Linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 2260 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 2 gLow Naturally low in sugar. |
| Saturated fat | 3.5 gMedium |
| Salt | 1.8 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Enriched corn meal, vegetable oil, cheese seasoning, salt, yellow 6, MSG.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
Sunset yellow FCFE110
−14Another dye tied to children’s behaviour in some studies.
Extra care for children
Palm oil
−8High in saturated fat. The other cost is landscape. A daily chocolate spread is both stories at once.
Monosodium glutamateE621
−5Safe for most. A few people report a reaction; most do not.
Corn
No concernStaple grain. Fine as food; the extras around it usually decide the score.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
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