Pringles Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps

Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps: 4.1/5 ingredient safety

Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps by Pringles has 9 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.1 out of 5, in line with 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 in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Snacks / Salty snacks / Appetizers / Chips and fries / Crisps / Salty snacks made from potato

How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps, 9 of its 9 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps sits nationally

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

4.1 Top 42% higher than 58% 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

4.1
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.1 out of 5
Based on 9 tracked ingredients
9
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
8
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

Dried potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, high oleic soybean, and/or sunflower oil), degerminated yellow corn flour, rice flour, corn starch, maltodextrin, mono - and diglycerides, contains 2% or less of salt, whey, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), dextrose, monosodium glutamate, coconut oil, onion powder, sugar, natural flavors, nonfat milk, citric acid, sodium caseinate, lactic acid, yeast extract, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, buttermilk, malic acid, invert sugar, cultured nonfat milk, cream, wheat starch.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps: 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0038000845253
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps's 4.1/5 average puts it in the safer 58%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps's 4.1/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps's mapped ingredients average out to 4.1/5, 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.