Is Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 7 additives
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
corn, vegetable oil (processing marker) (corn, canola, and sunflower oil), salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), monosodium glutamate (ultra-processing marker), fructose (ultra-processing marker), sodium diacetate, soy sauce (processing marker), soybean, wheat, salti, onion, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker) (made from corn), hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolyzed corn protein, garlic ponder, torula yeast, malic acid, paprika, spices, caramel color, disodium inosinate (ultra-processing marker), disodium guanylate (ultra-processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), and natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), ingredients
Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E296 Malic acid , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate
As written on the pack
corn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, fructose, sodium diacetate, soy sauce ( soybean , wheat , salti, onion powder, maltodextrin (made from corn), hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolyzed corn protein, garlic ponder, torula yeast, malic acid, extractives of paprika, spices, caramel color, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, dextrose, and natural flavor, contains soy and wheat ingredients,
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.
- E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
- E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
- E627 Disodium guanylate Disodium guanylate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
- E631 Disodium inosinate Disodium inosinate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
- 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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
Among 359 corn chips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 329th. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0028400421195, last edited 5 May 2020), 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.