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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, and Canola [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [read more]
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, and YELLOW 6 LAKE
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Fat Free), Cheese (Cheddar), Cream (Sour Cream), Cheese, Milk, Buttermilk, Dairy Product Solids, and Cheese Culture [read more]
This product has 16 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains food additives of moderate concern
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, and YELLOW 6 LAKE
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, and Canola [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Includes ingredient(s) derived from animals that were possibly treated with antibiotics and/or growth promoters: Milk (Fat Free), Cheese (Cheddar), Cream (Sour Cream), Cheese, Milk, Buttermilk, Dairy Product Solids, and Cheese Culture [read more]
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
LAY’S BAKED BARBECUE FLAVORED POTATO CRISP INGREDIENTS: DRIED POTATOES, CORN STARCH, CORN OIL, SUGAR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, ONION POWDER, MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN), TOMATO POWDER, GARLIC POWER, YEAST, SOYBEAN OIL, NATURAL FLAVORS (CONTAINS MILK), SUNFLOWER OIL, PAPRIKA, ACACIA GUM, PAPRIKA EXTRACTS, ANNATTO EXTRACTS AND CARAMEL COLOR. CONTAINS MILK AND SOY INGREDIENTS. SMARTFOOD WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVORED POPCORN INGREDIENTS: POPCORN VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, CANOLA, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), NATURAL FLAVOR, WHEY, MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN), BUTTERMILK, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE SOY CULTURES, SALT ENZYMES), AND SALT. CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS. RUFFLES BAKED CHEDDAR & SOUR CREAM NATURALLY & ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED POTATO CRISPS INGREDIENTS: DRIED POTATOES, CORN STARCH, CORN OIL, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM COMA SALT SOY LECITHIN, DEXTROSE, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ONION POWDER CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE CHEESE MILK CULTURES, SALT ENZYMES), CITRIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL COLOR (YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6 SKIM MILK NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, GARLIC POWDER, ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE, AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE. CONTAINS MILK AND SOY INGREDIENTS. LAY'S BAKED ORIGINAL POTATO CRISPS INGREDIENTS: DRIED POTATOES, CORN STARCH, CORN OIL, SUGAR, SEA SALT, SOY LECITHIN, DEXTROSE, AND ANNATTO EXTRACTS. CONTAINS SOY INGREDIENTS. CHEETOS BAKED CRUNCHY CHEESE FLAVORED SNACKS INGREDIENTS: ENRICHED CORN MEAL (CORN MEAL, FERROUS SULFATE, NIACIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, CANOLA, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL , WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK CHEESE CULTURES SALT ENZYMES), MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN), AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SALT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC AND ARTIFICIAL COLOR (YELLOW 6). CONTAINS MILK INGREDIENTS.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Canola Oil, Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, Corn, Maltodextrin, Soybean, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, Maltodextrin (Corn), Citric Acid, and Canola [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from milk and soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
18.0 servings per container
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