Salty Snacks Roundup
We analyzed 2012 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 16)

The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Lime Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: Cassava blend (cassava flour, cassava starch), avocado oil, coconut flour, chia seed, sea salt, citric acid, lime oil.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sweet Chili Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
Ingredients: POTATOES, SUNFLOWER OIL, SWEET CHILI SEASONING [SUGAR, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, SPICES (INCLUDING CHILI PEPPER),VINEGAR, DEXTROSE, GARLIC POWDER, CITRIC ACID, MALIC ACID, EXPELLER PRESSED SUNFLOWER OIL, NATURAL FLAVORS, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, SALT.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Flackers Organic Flax Seed Crackers - Savory
Ingredients: Organic flax seeds, organic apple cider vinegar, bragg liquid aminos (vegetable protein from non-gmo soybeans and purified water), organic garlic, organic onion, organic red chili pepper, organic basil.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch Flavored Doritos
Ingredients: CORN, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, CANOLA, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN), SALT, BUTTERMILK, WHEY, ONION POWDER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SPICES, CORN FLOUR, GARLIC POWDER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, TOMATO POWDER, SUGAR, SOUR CREAM (CULTURED CREAM, SKIM MILK), CREAM, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), CITRIC ACID, BLUE CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), ARTIFICIAL COLOR (RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, RED 40, BLUE 1), MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), SWISS CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), AND TOCOPHEROL (ANTIOXIDANT) CONTAINS MILK
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

Serrano Sea Salt Vinegar Potato Chips
Ingredients: Potatoes, avocado oil, distilled white vinegar powder, sea salt, serrano powder, citric acid.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Salted Peanuts
Ingredients: almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, walnuts, coconut, peanut oil, sea salt
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Contains Peanut

Kettle Cooked Potato Chips Sour Cream Herb & Onion
Ingredients: potatoes, vegetable oil, dextrose, salt, buttermilk, onion powder, sour cream, sugar, garlic powder, yeast extract, yogurt, natural flavors, spices, lactic acid
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Sea Salt White Bean Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: Whole Great Northern Beans, Navy Beans, Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, Tapioca Starch, Sea Salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Veggie Straws Ranch
Ingredients: POTATO STARCH, POTATO FLOUR, VEGETABLE OIL (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: SAFFLOWER, SUNFLOWER, CORN, CANOLA, OLIVE, SOYBEAN), BUTTERMILK POWDER, SALT, COCONUT OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORS, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, CANE SUGAR, SPINACH, TOMATO, DEXTROSE, YEAST EXTRACT, SOUR CREAM (CREAM, CULTURES, LACTIC ACID), BEET ROOT, DEHYDRATED ONION, TOMATO POWDER, TURMERIC, CITRIC ACID, CREAM, CULTURED NONFAT MILK, BLACK PEPPER, LACTIC ACID, PAPRIKA, MALIC ACID, VINEGAR, NONFAT MILK, SODIUM CASEINATE, SPICES. CONTAINS: MILK.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Teriyaki Seaweed Tempura Chips
Ingredients: Rice Flour, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch (Tapioca Starch, Potato Starch), Soy Sauce Flavor Seasoning (Sugar, Corn Starch, Soy Sauce [Soybean, Wheat, Dextrin], Sesame Seeds, Glucose, Fish Flavor, Dextrin, Salt, Brown Rice, Citric Acid, Cheese [Milk, Salt, Dextrin, Butter], Yeast Extract, Vinegar, Licorice Extract, Silicon Dioxide), Seaweed, Sweet Rice Flour, Sugar, Salt, Kelp Seasoning (Maltodextrin, Kelp, Salt, Water), Shiitake Mushroom Extract, Onion Extract, Herb Extract (Rice Bran Oil, Green Tea Extract, Rosemary Extract), Contains 0.1% percent or less of: Caramel Color, Aspartame.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Fish

Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: WHITE CORN, VEGETABLE OIL (ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: CORN, COTTONSEED, SUNFLOWER), SALT. PROUDLY
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic sea salt, corn chips
Ingredients: ORGANIC GROUND YELLOW CORN, ORGANIC EXPELLER PRESSED OILS (SUNFLOWER SEED AND/OR CANOLA OIL AND/OR SAFFLOWER SEED), SEA SALT.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

CHEDDAR CHEESE
Ingredients: DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN OIL, SUNFLOWER OIL), YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY 2%, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, ONION POWDER, NONFAT MILK, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BLUE CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTERMILK, LACTIC ACID, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR), COCONUT OIL, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, YEAST EXTRACT, WHEAT STARCH.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Waves Sea Salt
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oils (Canola, Sunflower, Safflower), Sea Salt.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Rolled Tortilla Chips Chile Lime
Ingredients: yellow and white corn, expeller pressed vegetable oil (sunflower and/or safflower oil), maltodextrin, sea salt, citric acid, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, lactic acid, red beet powder (for color), white distilled vinegar, chile pepper, yeast extract, paprika oleoresin (for color), annatto extract (for color), black pepper, lime juice, natural flavor
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Veggie straws
Ingredients: VEGGIE STRAWS (POTATO STARCH, POTATO FLOUR, TOMATO PASTE, CORN STARCH, SALT, CANE SUGAR, SPINACH POWDER [COLOR], POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, BEETROOT POWDER (COLOR), TURMERIC [COLOR]), SUNFLOWER OIL, SEA SALT.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Miss Vicke’s Baja Chipotle Potato Chips
Ingredients: POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, CANOLA, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL, AND LESS THAN 2% OF DEXTROSE, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, SUGAR, SPICES (INCLUDING PARSLEY, CHIPOTLE PEPPERS, ONION POWDER, TOMATO POWDER, POTASSIUM SALT, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WHEY, YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, LACTIC ACID, PAPRIKA EXTRACTS, CITRIC ACID, AND NATURAL FLAVORS CONTAINS MILK
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Flamin’ Hot Pretzels
Ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CORN OIL, SALT, CORN SYRUP, LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), YEAST EXTRACT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, ONION POWDER, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, ARTIFICIAL COLOR (RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE), GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST, MALT EXTRACT, AMMONIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE _CONTAINS MILK AND WHEAT INGREDIENTS_
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)

Organic Tortilla Chips Nacho
Ingredients: ORGANIC STONE GROUND YELLOW CORN*, ORGANIC HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER OIL, SEA SALT, ORGANIC FLAVOR, ORGANIC CHEDDAR CHEESE (ORGANIC MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), ORGANIC GARLIC POWDER, ORGANIC TOMATO POWDER, ORGANIC DEXTROSE, ORGANIC GREEN BELL PEPPER, ORGANIC TAPIOCA SOLIDS, ORGANIC ONION POWDER, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, ORGANIC BUTTERMILK, CITRIC ACID, ORGANIC PAPRIKA, ORGANIC NUTRITIONAL YEAST, ORGANIC CUMIN, ORGANIC BLACK PEPPER, ORGANIC CHILE PEPPER, ORGANIC SKIM MILK, LACTIC ACID, LIME CONTAINS: MILK
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Fit Joy Grain Free Cracker Rounds- Classic
Ingredients: Cassava Flour, Responsibly Sourced Palm Oil, Potato Starch, Chickpea Flour, Sea Salt, Sunflower Oil, Agave Syrup, Contains less than 2% of: Leavening (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Baking Soda), Sunflower Lecithin, Natural.
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

soboro crackers
Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Sugar, Shortening (Vegetable Oil), Blended Edible Oil (Palm Olein Oil, Palm Oil, Oleoresin rosemary), Almond slice, Glucose Hydrocrystalline,Cream Cheese Powder, Whole Egg liquid, Almond paste,Ammonium Bicarbonate, Margarine (Refined Palm Oil, Palm Olein Hardened Oil, Palm Olein Oil, Butter Bland, Lecithin), Processed Skim Milk Powder, Alpha Corn Seed, Corn Syrup, Processed Butter, Sodium Bicarbonate, Refined Salt, Cocoa Powder, Sugar Processed Good, Whole Milk Powder, Butter Flavor, Cinnamon Powder, Baking Powder, Monocalcium Phosphate, Mixed Formulation, Enzyme Preparation, Vanillin.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

triscuit
Ingredients: ORGANIC WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, ORGANIC EXPELLER PRESSED SUNFLOWER OIL, SEA SALT. CONTAINS: WHEAT. MONDELEZ GLOBAL LLC, EAST HANOVER, NJ 07936 USA CERTIFIED ORGANIC BY CCOF www m 0% 8% 2% 100% III WHOLE GRAIN leGrainsCouncil.org BAKED WITH 100% WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT 24g WHOLE GRAIN PER 28g SERVING NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS OR COLORS
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Gelson’s Home Style Tortilla Chips
Ingredients: Whole corn, high-oleic sunflower and/or safflower oil, lime, sea salt
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Hint Serrano of Sea Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips
Ingredients: Potatoes, avocado oil, distilled white vinegar powder, sea salt, serrano powder, citric acid
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Tangy Dijon Mustard Pretzels
Ingredients: Cassava Flour, Potato Starch,, Chickpea Flour, Sunflower Oil,, Tapioca Starch, Mustard Seed, Sea, Salt, Date Syrup, Garlic Powder, Yeast,, Sunflower Lecithin, Citric Acid, Onion, Powder, Spices, Turmeric Extract, (Color), Stevia Leaf Extract.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Wise Onion and Garlic Chips
Ingredients: WISE 11:21 AM Golden Potato ONION & GARLIC SUPPORTS THIS PRODUCT ONE TREE PLANTED FORES TATION
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Pringles Las Meras Meras Habaneras
Ingredients: DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, SUNFLOWER), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, 2% CITRIC ACID, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, MALIC ACID, SUGAR, SPICE, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, YEAST EXTRACT, LIME JUICE CONCENTRATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, WHEY, YELLOW 6 LAKE, WHEAT STARCH, YELLOW 5 LAKE.
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Tostitos Original Restaurant Style
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

Spicy Dill Pickle Potato Chips
Ingredients: POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, OR CANOLA OIL), SEASONING (SUGAR, DEXTROSE, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, GARLIC POWDER, SPICE, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CITRIC ACID, ONION POWDER, VINEGAR POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR), SALT.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
