Lay's Nutri-Score D NOVA 3

Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt

Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt: 4/5 ingredient safety

Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt by Lay's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

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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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt has 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 Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

Dried Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Corn, And/Or Canola Oil), Potato Starch, Sea Salt, And Turmeric.

Product Details

Brand
Lay's
Barcode
0028400206594
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt rank on ingredient safety?

Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt 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's behind the 4/5 rating on Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Sea Salt Potato Snacks, Sea Salt's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.