Is Tostitos Cantina Lightly Salted Flavoured Corn Chips ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 9 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Less processed crisps
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
tostitos® lightly salted corn chips ingredients (corn), canola oil, salt (processing marker), sunflower oil antioxidants (tocopherols, ascorbic acid, rosemary extract, citric acid)
Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary
As written on the pack
tostitos® lightly salted corn chips ingredients: corn, canola oil, salt, sunflower oil antioxidants (tocopherols, ascorbic acid. rosemary extract, citric acid).
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 359 corn chips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 191st. 46% of the corn chips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9310015246142, last edited 22 September 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.