White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips — OKAY

Name: White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips
Brand: H-E-B

Munch or Dump rates White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips by H-E-B OKAY — score 62/90.

Three ingredients: white corn, vegetable oil, and salt. This is a straightforward fried corn chip with nothing engineered about it — no flavor enhancers, colors, or maltodextrin. The only real knocks are the refined frying oil and sodium, and the fact that it's still a fried, calorie-dense snack.

Why this verdict

Three-ingredient list — corn, oil, salt
No MSG, nucleotides, maltodextrin, or artificial colors
Refined vegetable oil and salt are the only downsides
Clean formula, but fried and calorie-dense by nature

Ingredients (3)

White Corn (safe) — Ground corn is the whole-food base of the chip.
Vegetable Oil (Corn/Cottonseed/Sunflower) (moderate) — Refined seed oils; drive the high fat and calorie load.
Salt (moderate) — Main sodium source; keep an eye on it if you use large amounts.

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