Sun Chips Garden Salsa
Sun Chips Garden Salsa by Sun Chips has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for Sun Chips Garden Salsa 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 Sun Chips Garden Salsa sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
whole corn, sunflower and/or canola oil, whole wheat, brown rice flour, whole oat flour, sugar, tomato powder, salt, natural flavors, maltodextrin (made from corn), cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), dextrose, buttermilk, onion powder, whey, yeast extract, romano cheesee part-skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, corn oil, spices (including jalapeño pepper), citric acid, paprika extracts, and lactic acid. contains milk and wheat ingredients. frito-lay, inc. plano, tx 75024-4099 sunchips and the chip configuration are registered trademarks owned by frito-lay north america, inc. o 2015 smartlobel
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Sun Chips Garden Salsa: 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: 4.5/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Sun Chips
- Barcode
- 0028400329446
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Sun Chips Garden Salsa's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Sun Chips Garden Salsa sits ahead of 71% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Sun Chips Garden Salsa?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Sun Chips Garden Salsa's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, 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.