Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips
Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips by Hilo Life has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER OIL, DEFATTED ALMOND FLOUR, MILK PROTEIN, NACHO CHEESE SEASONING WHEY POWDER, CHEDDAR CHEESE POWDER CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, YEAST EXTRACT, ONION POWDER, BUTTERMILK POWDER, TOMATO POWDER, SPICES, ACACIA GUM GARLIC POWDER, BUTTER CREAM, ANNATTO I, SUNFLOWER OIL, PAPRIKA , NONFAT DRY MILK, CUMIN, PEA PROTEIN ISOLATE, CHIA PROTEIN, ALMOND FLOUR, POTATO STARCH, BAKING SODA CONTAINS: ALMONDS AND MILK
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hilo Life
- Barcode
- 0030000574409
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips above or below average on ingredient safety?
Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Nacho Cheese Almond Flour Tortilla Style Chips's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk 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.