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Is Great Value Glacier Ranch tortilla chips ultra-processed?

311g Corn chips Sold in the United States

Pack of Great Value Glacier Ranch tortilla 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:

  • 41 ingredients
  • 13 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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

yellow corn, vegetable oil (contains one and more of the following (corn), sunflower, safflower, and canola oil), salt maltodextrin, buttermilk solids, monosodium glutamate, cornstarch, dextrose, tomato, garlic, nonfat dry milk, corn syrup solids, onion, cheddar cheese (milk, salt, cultures, enzymes), sodium diacetate, sugar, spice, malic acid, natural and artificial flavor, lactic acid, yeast extract, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, tricalcium phosphate, paprika extract (flavor, color), annatto, turmeric extract, titanium dioxide, red 40, blue 1, yellow 5

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E102 Tartrazine , E129 Allura red , E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E160c Paprika extract , E171 Titanium dioxide , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate

As written on the pack

Ground yellow corn, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, sunflower, safflower, or canola oil), salt maltodextrin, buttermilk solids, monosodium glutamate, cornstarch, dextrose, tomato powder, garlic powder, nonfat dry milk, corn syrup solids, onion powder, cheddar cheese (milk, salt, cultures, enzymes), sodium diacetate, sugar, spice, malic acid, natural and artificial flavor, lactic acid, yeast extract, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, tricalcium phosphate, paprika extract (flavor and color), annatto extract, turmeric extract, titanium dioxide, red 40, blue 1, yellow 5.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • E129 Allura red Allura red AC is a synthetic red azo dye (FD&C Red No. 40 in the US).
  • E133 Brilliant blue FCF Brilliant blue FCF is a synthetic blue dye, listed in the US as FD&C Blue No. 1.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E171 Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide is a white pigment.
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  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
9 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Microbial culture Microbial cultures ferment foods such as yoghurt, cheese and sourdough.
  • Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 corn chips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 354th. 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 0078742093208, last edited 23 April 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.
  • 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.