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Delicious potato chips

Greenveil's read: consider avoiding. Food health critical · 2 additives of concern (worst: Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)).

Food health
Critical
Chemical concern
Not assessed

Allergens

  • Dairy
  • Soy

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 23 Apr 2020

Why it's rated this way

2 additives on this label are on our additives-of-concern list.

  1. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)Moderate concernAntioxidant; classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans (animal forestomach tumours).
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Antioxidant; classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans (animal forestomach tumours).
    Regulatory basis
    Greenveil's curated additives-of-concern list, which cites the authority behind each entry.
    How sure we are
    High confidence. Matched by the additive code declared on the label.
  2. Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)Moderate concernAntioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
    What it is
    Its role isn't recorded in our data yet.
    Why it's flagged
    Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.
    Regulatory basis
    Greenveil's curated additives-of-concern list, which cites the authority behind each entry.
    How sure we are
    High confidence. Matched by the additive code declared on the label.

A food's rating also reflects nutrition (Nutri-Score) and processing (NOVA); the additives above are the ingredient-level part of it.

Ingredients

  • Select potatoes60.7%No flag
  • Vegetable fat19.6%No flag
  • Contains one and more of the following9.8%No flag
  • Corn9.8%No flag›
  • Cottonseed4.9%No flag›
  • Sunflower2.5%No flag›
  • Partially hydrogenated soybean oil2.5%No flag›
  • Salt1.4%No flag›
  • And salt1.4%No flag›
  • Vinegar seasoning composed of1.4%No flag
  • E262ii1.4%No flag
  • Salt1.4%No flag›
  • Vegetable oil1.4%No flag›
  • Cottonseed0.7%No flag›
  • Soya bean0.7%No flag›
  • Malic acid · E2961.4%No flag
  • Sodium citrate1.4%No flag›
  • With bha · E3201.4%Moderate

    Antioxidant; classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans (animal forestomach tumours).

  • Bht · E3211.4%Moderate

    Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.

  • And citric acid · E330No flag
  • Each add to preserve freshnessNo flag
  • And less than 2% silicon dioxide and polysorbate 80 added to prevent caking5.4%No flag
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Select potatoes, vegetable shortening (contains one or more of the following: corn, cottonseed, sunflower or partially hydrogenated soy oil), salt, and salt and vinegar seasoning composed of: lactose, sodium diacetate, salt, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed, soybean), malic acid, sodium citrate, with bha, bht, and citric acid (0.01% each add to preserve freshness), and less than 2% silicon dioxide and polysorbate 80 added to prevent caking.

Alerts

Declared allergens

This product declares Dairy, Soy.

Declared on pack via Open Food Facts · updated 23 Apr 2020

Food health

Nutrition profile and additives of concern

Contains additive of concern
  • Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)Antioxidant; classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans (animal forestomach tumours).
  • Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)Antioxidant; animal-study tumour/endocrine signals; structurally related to BHA.

Per-ingredient concern · chemical identity, not food safety

What drives this

2 moderate · 1 not assessed

1 of 3 ingredients not yet assessed · Show all

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