Jays, Jays Foods Inc. Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream

Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream: 3/5 ingredient safety

Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream by Jays, Jays Foods Inc. has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 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 1.12 points below 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 Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream 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 Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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, canola oil and/or corn oil, salt, whey, maltodextrin, buttermilk powder, monosodium glutamate, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), lactose, onion powder, buttermilk, nonfat dry milk, natural

Product Details

Barcode
0041200034204
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3/5, Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3/5 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 3/5 average places Potato Chips, Cheddar & Sour Cream 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.