Sour Cream & Onion Flavored Potato Chips

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 5 ingredients to avoid

Lay's Sour Cream & Onion Flavored Potato Chips scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 0g fiber, 1g protein and 1g sugar. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Lay's Sour Cream & Onion Flavored Potato Chips lists 21 ingredients, starting with Potatoes, Vegetable Oil, Sunflower, Corn and Canola Oil. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

45 kcal per serving, or 160 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Lay's Sour Cream & Onion Flavored Potato Chips on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Lay's Sour Cream & Onion Flavored Potato Chips scores worse than most chips & crisps we have scored. A higher-scoring option in chips & crisps is VANDY Classic Potato Chips at 95/100.