Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips
Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips by Lay's has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Snacks / Cereals and potatoes / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Potato crisps
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
potatoes, vegetable oil (sunflower, corn, and/or canola oil), cheddar ,sour cream seasoning (maltodextrin [made from corn], whey, salt, cheddar cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), onion powder, corn oil, natural flavor, canola oi, buttermilk, sour cream (cultured cream, skim milk), butter [cream, salt), sodium caseinate, yeast extract, lactose, citric acid, skim milk, blue cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], lactic acid, paprika extracts, garlic powder, whey protein isolate, milk protein concentrate, annatto extracts, and sunflower oin, contains milk ingredients, frito-lay, inc, plano, tx 75024-4099 2019 frito-lay north america, inc
Product Details
- Brand
- Lay's
- Barcode
- 0028400310505
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 5/5 average places Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips in the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.