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Is FritoLay Chili Cheese Flavored Corn Chips ultra-processed?

Corn chips Sold in the United States

Pack of FritoLay Chili Cheese Flavored Corn Chips

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 4 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

irond, 3m potassium 120m not a significant source and the % daily value (dv), tells you how m in a serving of tood oontributes to a daily diet 2‚000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice, ingredents conn, conn on, whey, salt, spices, maltodextrin made from comni, chedoar cheese, milk, cheese cultures, salt endymesi, canola oil, potassium chloride, tomato fowoer monosodium glutamate, onion, natural hlavors, romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, inlymes), dextrose, sugar, buttermilk, sodium caseinate, annatto, butter (cream, salt), citric acid, sinlower oil, garlic, disodiom inosinate, disodium guanylate, caramel color

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E330 Citric acid , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E627 Disodium guanylate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel, E621 Monosodium glutamate.

As written on the pack

irond,3m potassium 120m not a significant source or the % daily value (dv) tells you how m in a serving of tood oontributes to a daily diet 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice, ingredents conn, conn on, whey, salt, spices, maltodextrin made from comni, chedoar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt endymesi, canola oil, potassium chloride, tomato fowoer monosodium glutamate, onion powder, natural hlavors, romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, inlymes), dextrose,sugar, buttermilk, sodium caseinate, annatto extracts, butter (cream, salt), citric acid, sinlower oil, garlic powder, disodiom inosinate, disodium guanylate and caramel color.

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.

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.
  • 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.
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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 289th. 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 0028400589284, last edited 7 June 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.