Sea salt & vinegar potato chips
Sea salt & vinegar potato chips by Cape Cod has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.7 out of 5, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.58 points above 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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Sea salt & vinegar potato 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 Sea salt & vinegar potato chips sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.7 Top 18% higher than 82% 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
potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: canola oil, safflower oil and/or sunflower oil), maltodextrin, sea salt, vinegar powder, malic acid, citric acid, salt, dextrose, acetic acid, sugar, apple cider vinegar powder,
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Sea salt & vinegar potato 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: 4.7/5.
- Potato Bacon Breakfast Δ 0.0 pts · The Kwikery 4.7/511 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Blended Cultured Soymilk Δ 0.0 pts · Silk 4.7/57 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Cape Cod
- Barcode
- 0020685000287
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Sea salt & vinegar potato chips rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sea salt & vinegar potato chips's 4.7/5 average puts it in the safer 82%, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.7/5 rating on Sea salt & vinegar potato chips?
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 4.7/5 average places Sea salt & vinegar potato chips in the Generally Safe 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.