Ranch tortilla chips
Ranch tortilla 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
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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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Ranch tortilla 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 Ranch tortilla 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, RANCH SEASONING (WHEY POWDER, BUTTERMILK POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, SOUR CREAM CREAM, NONFAT MILK, CULTURES), ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, YEAST EXTRACT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, LACTIC ACIO, TOMATO POWDER, SUNFLOWER OIL, BUTTER [CREAM, ANNATTO (COLOR)), PAPRIKA EXTRACT [COLOR]). PEA PROTEIN ISOLATE, CHIR PROTEIN, ALMOND FLOUR, POTATO STARCH, BAKING SODA. CONTAINS: ALMONDS AND MILK. DIST
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ranch tortilla 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
- 0030000574416
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ranch tortilla chips above or below average on ingredient safety?
Ranch tortilla 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.
How should Ranch tortilla chips's 4/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Ranch tortilla 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.