Is FritoLay Doritos Sweet & Tangy BBQ Flavored ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
corn, vegetable oil (processing marker) (corn, canola, and sunflower oil), sugar (processing marker), sodium diacetate, tomato, salt (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), onion, spices, monosodium glutamate (ultra-processing marker), molasses (processing marker), yeast extract, paprika, sodium acetate, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker) (made from corn), corn syrup solids (ultra-processing marker), artificial color (ultra-processing marker) (yellow 6 lake (ultra-processing marker), red 40 lake (ultra-processing marker), blue 2 (ultra-processing marker), lake), garlic, malic acid, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker) (including milk), disodium inosinate (ultra-processing marker), ingredients
Additives: E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E129 Allura red , E132 Indigotine , E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E296 Malic acid , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E631 Disodium inosinate
As written on the pack
corn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), sugar, sodium diacetate, tomato powder, salt, dextrose, onion powder, spices, monosodium glutamate, molasses, yeast extract, paprika, sodium acetate, maltodextrin (made from corn), corn syrup solids, artificial color (yellow 6 lake, red 40 lake, blue 2. lake), garlic powder, malic acid, natural flavors (including milk), disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate contains milk 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.
- E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
- E129 Allura red Allura red AC is a synthetic red azo dye (FD&C Red No. 40 in the US).
- E132 Indigotine 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.
- E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
- E631 Disodium inosinate Disodium inosinate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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- 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.
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.
Among 359 corn chips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 336th. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0028400697354, last edited 15 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.