Salty Snacks Roundup
We analyzed 2012 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 12)

Takis crunchy rolled tortilla chips fuego flavor
Ingredients: Corn masa flour, vegetable oil (palm, soybean, canola, rice bran oil), iodized salt, maltodextrin, citric acid, sugar, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed soy protein, onion powder, yeast extract, artificial color (red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake), natural and artificial flavors, sodium bicarbonate, soybean oil, chili pepper, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, TBHQ.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

Parmesan Cheese Crisps
Ingredients: 10INGREDIENTS: PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIMMED COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SEA SALT, ENZYMES). CONTAINS: MILK.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Doritos nacho cheese
Ingredients: corn, vegetable oil (sunflower, canola, and/or corn oil), maltodextrin (made from corn), salt, whey, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), buttermilk, monosodium glutamate, romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), onion powder, corn flour, natural and artificial flavors, dextrose, tomato powder, whey protein concentrate, spices, lactose, artificial color (yellow 6, yellow 5, red 40), potassium chloride, lactic acid, sodium caseinate, citric acid, sugar, garlic powder, red and green bell pepper powder, skim milk, disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate, contains milk ingredients,
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

Organic Red Quinoa Chia Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: organic whole grain corn flour, organic high oleic sunflower oil, organic cane sugar, organic long grain brown rice flour, organic flax seeds, organic chia seeds, organic red quinoa, sea salt, organic beet powder (color), organic paprika powder (color), organic quinoa, organic natural flavor,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Golden Potato Chips
Ingredients: Potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, cottonseed, sunflower, soybean or canola oil), salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Acacia gourmet table cracker
Ingredients: Wheat Flour (81%), Palm Oil (12%), Palm Kernel Oil, Malt (Barley), Salt, Yeast, Corn Flour, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate)< Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin) and Rosemary Extract
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tostitos Original Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: corn, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or sunflower oil), and salt,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Honey mustard potato crisps, honey mustard
Ingredients: Dried potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, high oleic soybean, and/or sunflower oil), degerminated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, rice flour, maltodextrin, sugar, mono - and diglycerides. contains 2% or less of salt, mustard (distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, spice, garlic powder), citric acid, monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, sodium diacetate, onion powder, honey, natural flavors, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, turmeric color, lactose, wheat starch.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Goldfish Baked Snack Crackers, Flavor Blasted Extra Cheddar
Ingredients: Unbleached Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid), Cheddar Cheese ([Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzyme, Annatto), Vegetable Oils (Canola, Sunflower and/or Soybean), Salt, Contains 2% or Less of: Sugar, Yeast, Whey, Autolyzed Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour, Leavening (Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Salt, Cultures, Enzymes), Torula Yeast, Paprika, Enzyme Modified Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Spices (Contains Celery), Dehydrated Onions, Yeast Extract, Dehydrated Garlic, Citric Acid, Paprika for Color, Lactic Acid, Calcium Lactate, Natural Flavors, and Milkfat.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Goldfish Backed Snack Crackers Cheddar
Ingredients: made with smiles and unbleached enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid), cheddar cheese (cultured milk , salt, enzymes, annatto), vegetable oils (canola, sunflower and/or soybean ), contains 2 percent or less of: salt, yeast, sugar, autolyzed yeast, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium bicarbonate), paprika, spices (contains celery ) and dehydrated onions,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lentil Chips Garlic & Parmesan
Ingredients: Lentil chip (lentil flour, potato starch, salt, turmeric, canola oil, paprika), safflower and/or sunflower oil, seasoning (rice flour, salt, onion powder, natural flavors, dehydrated parsley, garlic powder, yeast extract, spices, lactic acid, rosemary extract).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Graham Crackers
Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whole grain wheat flour, sugar, canola and/or soybean oil, citric acid and tbhq added to preserve freshness, contains 2% or less of: molasses, honey, baking soda and/or calcium phosphate (leavening), salt, dextrose, cinnamon, soy lecithin, natural cinnamon flavor, sodium sulfite.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains TBHQ (Tertiary Butylhydroquinone)
- ● High Sugar Content

12 grain mini snack crackers
Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sunflower oil, sugar, scotch oatmeal, inulin, rye flour, multigrain flour blend (wheat, rye, triticale, barley, corn, millet, soybean, sunflower seeds, rice, flax, durum wheat, oats), wheat germ, modified corn starch, salt, invert syrup, sodium bicarbonate, onion powder, malt flour, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Golden round crackers, golden round
Ingredients: Organic enriched wheat flour (organic wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), organic expeller pressed palm oil, organic evaporated cane sugar, organic malt extract, organic cane syrup, salt, leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), microbial enzymes.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Assorted Entertainment Crackers
Ingredients: Water cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, salt, cane sugar. original entertainer cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, cane sugar, malted barley extract, salt, natural flavor (sunflower seed oil, natural flavor), leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), microbial enzymes. english graham cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), graham flour, expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, cane sugar, molasses, brown sugar, invert sugar syrup, salt, leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), honey, microbial enzymes. vegetable cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, cane sugar, dehydrated vegetable blend (carrot, onion, celery, tomato, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, unbleached enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], salt, cane sugar, onion powder), leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), salt, microbial enzymes. wheat entertainer cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, wheat germ, cane sugar, whey (milk), leavening (ammonium bicarbonate), salt, flavor blend (autolyzed yeast extract, unbleached enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], wheat gluten), leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), wheat bran, microbial enzymes. poppy seed & pepper water cracker: unbleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, poppy seed, salt, black pepper, cane sugar.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Potato Chips Backyard Barbeque
Ingredients: potatoes, safflower, and/or sunflower and/or canola oil, organic dried cane syrup, sugar, salt, maltodextrin, paprika, onion powder, yeast extract, tomato powder, torula yeast, garlic powder, chili pepper, natural flavor (including smoke), citric acid,
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Corn Chips
Ingredients: Ground corn, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, sunflower, safflower, or canola oil), salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Flavored Potato Chips
Ingredients: Potatoes, sunflower and/or canola oil, salt, contains two percent or less of: sugar, dehydrated garlic, spices, paprika (color), corn maltodextrin, autolyzed yeast extract, dehydrated onion, chili pepper, extractives of turmeric (color).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tortilla triangles
Ingredients: Corn masa flour, water, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: cottonseed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil), salt, cellulose gum.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Vinta Crackers
Ingredients: Wheat flour, Vegetable oil (modified palm oil), Whole grains and seeds (millet, poppy seeds, malted wheat flakes, malted barley flour, wheat flakes, rye flakes, mustard seeds, sesame seeds, rolled oats), Cane sugar, Salt, Vinegar, Ammonium bicarbonate, Baking soda, Monocalcium phosphate, Tocopherols, Spices, Natural flavour, Soya lecithin
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Multigrain Crackers
Ingredients: Whole wheat flour, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil shortening (coconut and canola oil), flax seeds, sugar, ten grain blend (purple wheat, rye, triticale, malted wheat, barley, spelt, amaranth, millet, quinoa, wild rice), salt, contains 2% or less of: wheat meal, malt syrup, wheat bran, wheat, gluten, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, leavening (ammonium bicarbonate, baking soda), whey (a milk ingredient), natural flavor, yeast extract, spices, paprika color, soy lecithin, enzymes.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Stoned Wheat Thins
Ingredients: unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate vitamin b1, riboflavin vitamin b2, folic acid), cracked wheat, canola oil, salt, yeast, malted barley flour, baking soda, sodium metabisulfite (dough conditioner),
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Sodium Metabisulfite

Nabisco triscuit crackers roasted garlic 1x9 oz
Ingredients: Whole grain wheat, vegetable oil (soybean or canola oil), maltodextrin, salt, garlic powder, dextrose, hydrolyzed corn protein, yeast extract, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate (flavor enhancers), natural flavor, hydrolyzed yeast protein, hydrolyzed wheat protein.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Chips - Tortilla triangles
Ingredients: corn, vegetable oil (corn, sunflower, and/or canola), and salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sea salt & vinegar potato chips
Ingredients: 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,
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Pepperidge farm crackers cheddar
Ingredients: Made with smiles and whole wheat flour, enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheddar cheese ([cultured milk, salt, enzymes], annatto), canola and/or sunflower oil, salt, contains 2% or less of: yeast, autolyzed yeast extract, paprika, spices, celery, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, onion powder.contains: wheat, milk.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Kettle Popped-Corn Snacks Sweet & Salty
Ingredients: total sugars 3g includes 3g added sugars protein 1g vitamin d omcg calcium omg iron omg potassium 29mg % 0% in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet, 2,000 %0% %0% 845-271-7360 ©2018 bfy brands, ail rights reserved, e in a facility that does not process peanuts or tree nuts, no dairy ingredients, made in a facility that processes milk ingredients, non gmo project erified certified moproject,org gf gluten-free
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Peanut

Sphère plaisir
Ingredients: Courgette (40 %), _ŒUF_, Farines (avoine, pois chiche), bicarbonate, _MOUTARDE_ à L'Ancienne (dont Vinaigre d'alcool, graines de _MOUTARDE_, eau, sel, vin blanc 4,8 % (dont _SULFITES_), sucre, arôme naturel, acidifiant : acide lactique), Cœur: _MOUTARDE_ au miel (dont Sucre, eau, vinaigre d'alcool, graines de _MOUTARDE_, miel 8%, sel, épices, herbes, colorant : caramel E150c, acidifiant : acide citrique, conservateur : E224 (_SULFITES_))
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Creamy peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets
Ingredients: Peanut butter (dry roasted peanuts, sugar, salt), cassava flour, potato starch, sunflower oil, tapioca starch, whole grain sorghum flour, hemp heart protein, organic cane sugar, sea salt, sunflower lecithin, vitamin e (for freshness) CONTAINS PEANUTS
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Peanut
