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Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips

by Lay's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400630887 · Lay's · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0028400630887 · Serving size 1 package (24 g)

The verdict

Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips by Lay's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Potatoes, Vegetable Oil, Organic Sunflower. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 18 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
D
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

63/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

D

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

00630887 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 18 ing. REG-SPARSE 28% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-MID Len top 26% LEAD-RARE Torula yeast PHOTO-FINISH Rice And Veggie · ±0 BOOK-OFF …630887 · July 2026

5 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Torula yeast). Source sheet 00630887 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Rice And Veggie Crisps · Nearest score peer is Rice And Veggie Crisps at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.

A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Fl…100/1002. Rice And Veggie Crisps: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Rice And Veggie Crisps100/1003. Classic Dipped Fudge Coated Pretzels, Classic: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Classic Dipped Fudge Coat…100/1004. Harvest Cheddar Flavored Whole Grain Snacks, Harvest Cheddar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Harvest Cheddar Flavored …100/1005. Fudge Coated Bavarian Twists Pretzels, Dark Dipped: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Fudge Coated Bavarian Twi…100/100
High-band neighbours for Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips (100/100) outside Lay's.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips
100/100
Rice And Veggie Crisps
100/100
Classic Dipped Fudge Coated Pretzels, Classic
100/100
Harvest Cheddar Flavored Whole Grain Snacks, Harvest Cheddar
100/100
Fudge Coated Bavarian Twists Pretzels, Dark Dipped
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips scores 13.9 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products

Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips lists 18 ingredients on its label

18 74th percentile a longer ingredient list than 74% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Above this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Above this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 18 (74th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (SUNFLOWER, CORN, AND/OR CANOLA OIL), MALTODEXTRIN (MADE FROM CORN), SALT, DEXTROSE, ONION POWDER, TORULA YEAST, SPICES, WHEY, PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVORS, GARLIC POWDER, JALAPEÑO PEPPER POWDER, AND YEAST EXTRACT

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Snacks Cereals and potatoes Salty snacks Appetizers Chips and fries Crisps Potato crisps

High-score cross-brand comparables for Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips

Neighbours outside Lay's with screening scores in the same high band as Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Lay's; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Kettle Cooked Jalapeño Flavored Potato Chips has a longer ingredient list than 74% of its Plant-based foods and beverages category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0028400630887: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.