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Is El Sabroso Original Guacachip ultra-processed?

5 oz Corn chips Sold in the United States

Pack of El Sabroso Original Guacachip

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Safflower Vegetable Oil), Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Rice Oil, Whey, Salt, Maltodextrin, Cheddar Cheese Powder (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Garlic, Onion, Sour Cream (Cream, Nonfat Milk, Cultures), Avocado, Yeast Extract, Buttermilk Powder, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Parsley, Produced in a facility that also handles Soy, Wheat, Snak-King LLC Los Angeles, 91745 u.s.a, www.snakking.com, Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients Snaki&King ©202 of Snacks

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Corn, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Safflower, Canola, Corn, Cottonseed and/or Rice Oil), Whey, Salt, Maltodextrin, Cheddar Cheese Powder (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Sour Cream (Cream, Nonfat Milk, Cultures), Avocado Powder, Yeast Extract, Buttermilk Powder, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Yellow 5 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Parsley Flakes. Contains Milk. Produced in a facility that also handles Soy and Wheat. Snak-King LLC Los Angeles, California 91745 U.S.A. www.snakking.com Contains Bioengineered Food Ingredients Snaki&King ©202 of Snacks

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.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 corn chips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 280th. 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 0078907450334, last edited 8 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.