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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: Palm Oil, Canola Oil (Non GMO), and Canola Oil [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Cane Sugar, and Rice Syrup [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]
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 5 ingredients with concerns as well as some contamination 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
Ingredient(s) likely derived from antibiotic-treated animals [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil, Canola Oil (Non GMO), and Canola Oil [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars, Cane Sugar, and Rice Syrup [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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TORTILLA CHIPS (YELLOW CORN, SUNFLOWER OIL, SEASONING BLEND [WHEY, SALT, BUTTERMILK POWDER, CANE SUGAR, SPINACH POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK, GARLIC POWDER, SOUR CREAM POWDER {CULTURED CREAM, NONFAT MILK}, ONION POWDER, CITRIC ACID, SPICE, NATURAL FLAVORS, CRYSTALLIZED LIME {CITRIC ACID, LIME OIL, LIME JUICE}, LACTIC ACID, AND LESS THAN 2% SILICON DIOXIDE AND CANOLA OIL ADDED AS PROCESSING AIDS], CANOLA OIL), CORN CHIPS (GROUND CORN, SUNFLOWER OIL, SEASONING [WHEY, SALT, SPINACH POWDER, CHEDDAR CHEESE POWDER {CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), WHEY, BUTTERMILK, SALT, AND DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORS, SPICE, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, CITRIC ACID, YEAST EXTRACT, LACTIC ACID, AND LESS THAN 2% SILICON DIOXIDE ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING]), CHEESE CURLS (CORNMEAL, VEGETABLE OIL (SUNFLOWER OR CANOLA), WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE POWDER [CHEDDAR CHEESE {CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES}, WHEY, BUTTERMILK, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE], SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, BUTTERMILK POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, PARMESAN CHEESE POWDER [PARMESAN CHEESE (MILK, SALT, CULTURES, ENZYMES), DISODIUM PHOSPHATE], LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, AND LESS THAN 2% CANOLA OIL AND SILICON DIOXIDE ADDED AS PROCESSING AIDS), PRETZEL TWISTS (POTATO STARCH AND/OR POTATO FLOUR, CASSAVA FLOUR, CORN STARCH, TAPIOCA STARCH, RICE FLOUR, PALM OIL AND/OR NON-GMO CANOLA OIL, TAPIOCA SYRUP, RICE SYRUP, SOLUBLE CORN FIBER, SUGAR, CELLULOSE GUM, SALT, INACTIVE YEAST, BAKING POWDER, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, ROSEMARY EXTRACT, ASCORBIC ACID).
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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Contains ingredients derived from milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
7.0 servings per container
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