Chips
Chips by Andy Capps has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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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 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 Chips sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
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
Degermed Yellow Cornmeal , Vegetable Oil (Palm and/or Cottonseed Oil), Dried Potatoes, Water, Cheese Powder (Whey, Salt, Buttermilk Solids, Reduced Lactose Whey, Maltodextrin, Monosodium Glutamate, Citric Acid, Cheddar & Blue Cheese [Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes], Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Spice, Artificial Flavor, Canola Oil, Disodium Phosphate, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Lactic Acid), Less than 2% of: Salt, Onion Powder, Monosodium Glutamate, TBHQ (Preservative), Shortening Powder (Soybean Oil, Corn Syrup Solids, Sodium Caseinate, Mono & Diglycerides), Mono - and Diglycerides, Cheddar Cheese Flavor (Maltodextrin, Flavor, Whey Solids, Salt, Disodium Phosphate), Citric Acid, Dried Chives, Dried Parsley, Extractives of Paprika, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein, Natural Flavor, Whey Powder, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake.CONTAINS: MILK.
Product Details
- Brand
- Andy Capps
- Barcode
- 0026200471815
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Chips rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.5/5, Chips sits behind 91% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chips's 3.5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Chips's 3.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.