Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style
by Hy-Vee
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0075450504002 · Hy-Vee · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style by Hy-Vee scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 19 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 19-component label is layered, beginning with Ground Corn Treated With Lime, Water, Preservatives. 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.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 19 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
18/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
50504002 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style label screening desk
13 of 19 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 50504002 · 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: Berry crisp crunch sweetened corn & oat cereal · Nearest score peer is Berry crisp crunch sweetened corn & oat cereal at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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
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. Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style scores 86.1 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 86.1/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Snacks products
Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style lists 19 ingredients on its label
19 56th percentile a longer ingredient list than 56% of the 81,477 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 275 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 2,901 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 4,248 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 5,408 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 5,486 products (7%)
- 10–12
- 5,840 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 6,252 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 6,724 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 6,221 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 5,168 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 4,508 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 3,809 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 3,567 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 2,829 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 2,282 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 1,905 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,715 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 1,572 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 1,417 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 1,284 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 8,066 products (10%)
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 81,477 Snacks products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 19 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
TORLLA CHIPS: GROUND CORN TREATED WITH LIME, WATER, PRESERVATIVES (SODIUM PROPIONATE (PROPIONIC ACID, SODIUM HYDROXIDE), SALT (ADDED AFTER COOKING). COOKED IN OIL: LOW LINOLENIC SOYBEAN OIL OR HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL WITH TSHD AND CTRIC ACID ADDED TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR, DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANE ADDED. MAY CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING: GREEN CHIPS: FD&C YELLOW NO. 5, FD&C BLUE NO. 1, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE. PINK CHIPS: PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C RED NO 3. RED CHIPS: FD&C RED NO. 40, FD&C YELLOW NO. 6, SODIUM BENZOATE, PHOSPHORIC ACID. BLUE CHIPS: PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C BLUE NO. 1, FD&C RED NO. 3, FD&C RED NO. 40, FD&C YELLOW NO. 6, FD&C YELLOW NO 5, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE. PURPLE CHIPS: PROPYLENE GLYCOL, FD&C RED NO. 3, FD&C BLUE NO. 1, FD&C YELLOW NO. 6, ORANGE CHIPS: FD&C YELLOW NO. 6, FD&C RED NO. 40, SODIUM BENZOATE, PHOSPHORIC ACID. BLACK CHIPS: FD&C RED NO 40, FD&C BLUE NO 1, FD&C YELLOW NO. 6, FD&C YELLOW NO. 5, SODIUM BENZOATE, PHOSPHORIC ACID.
Other products containing Fd&c Blue No 1
Fd&c Blue No 1 is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 15 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style
Neighbours outside Hy-Vee in the same lower screening band as Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hy-Vee; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 19 on 0075450504002).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (19 on 0075450504002).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 19-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Tortilla Chips - Restaurant Style's 5 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0075450504002: 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.