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Is Doritos Nachos Cheese Flavoured 100g ultra-processed?

100g Corn chips Sold in the United States, Bulgaria and 3 more countries

Pack of Doritos Nachos Cheese Flavoured 100g

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed corn chips

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

corn flour 68.7%, corn oil, mix of cheese-flavoured ingredients (maltodextrin, whey milk powder, wheat flour, salt, milk powder cheese 0.7%, powdered tomatoes, flavors (containing milk), onions, milk fat, potassium chloride, sodium monoglutamate, garlic powder, milk protein, dextrose, acidity correctors (acid, citric acid), dyes (red pepper, annatto, plain caramel), spices, sugar, skimmed milk)

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E160b Annatto , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

corn flour 68,7%, corn oil, mix of cheese-flavoured ingredients (maltodextrin, whey milk powder, wheat flour, salt, milk powder cheese 0,7%, powdered tomatoes, flavors (containing milk), powdered onions, powdered milk fat, potassium chloride, flavour enhancer (sodium monoglutamate), garlic powder, milk protein, dextrose, acidity correctors (acid , citric acid), dyes (red pepper extract, annatto, plain caramel), spices, sugar, skimmed milk),

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 corn chips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 307th. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 359 corn chips, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5900259094704, last edited 26 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.