Sun Chips Garden Salsa
Sun Chips Garden Salsa by Sun Chips has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.18 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. 3 of 3 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
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
organic whole yellow corn,organic organic onion powder, natural flavors, organic dextrose, organic brown rice flour, organic whole oat flour, organic cane sugar, cream buttermilk, organic maltodextrin (made from organic corn), registered trademarks owned by frito-lay sunchips and the chip configuration are visit us at sunchips.com dvanic tomato powder, sea salt, organic cheddar c ar, sunflower oil, organic yeast extract, organic romano cheese (organic cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), sal, organic skim milk, organic butter (organic cream, salt), organic spices, organic lactose, organic paprika extracts, organic sweet whey, and citric acid. contains wheat and milk ingredients. frito-lay, inc. plano, tx 75024-4099 certified organic by: oregon tilth отсо sunchips and the chip configuration are registered trademarks owned by frito-lay north america, inc. o 2015 find us on: facerook com/sunchipo questions or comments? 1-800-352-44/ weekdays 9:00am to 4:30pm c7
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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Sun Chips
- Barcode
- 0028400382915
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Sun Chips Garden Salsa rank on ingredient safety?
Sun Chips Garden Salsa scores 4.3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 62% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.3/5 rating on Sun Chips Garden Salsa?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Sun Chips Garden Salsa's 4.3/5 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.