Is Doritos Original ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 28 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed corn chips
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
corn (maize), vegetable oils (processing marker) (corn, sunflower, rapeseed), cool original flavour (flavouring (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), onion powder, potassium chloride, cheese powder (processing marker) (from milk), garlic powder, tomato, flavour ehancers (monosodium glutamate disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), acidity regulators (malic acid), sodium acetates, citric acid), colour amatto bixin, milk protein (ultra-processing marker), spice, borley, soya f doritosuk suk 70030070
Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bi Annatto bixin , E262 Sodium acetates , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide
As written on the pack
corn (maize), vegetable oils (corn, sunflower, rapeseed, in varying proportions), cool original flavour (flavouring (contains milk), salt, glucose syrup, sugar, onion powder, potassium chloride, cheese powder (from milk), garlic powder, tomato powder, flavour ehancers (monosodium glutamate disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), acidity regulators malic acid, sodium acetates, citric acid), colour amatto bixin), milk protein, spice), allergy advice contains: see highlighted ingredients may contain: wheat, gluten, borley, soya suitable for vegetarians f doritosuk suk 70030070
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.
- 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.
- E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
- 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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
5 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.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 359 corn chips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 297th. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 56042046, last edited 2 August 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.