Good taste is important, but so is good nutrition.
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| Frito-Lay chips start with simple ingredients: potato or corn, healthier oils and salt. Seasonings are added to some products to add a unique taste. |
You may be surprised to learn that many snacks chips start from simple farm-based ingredients – corn or potatoes.
Many of our products are made with these surprisingly simple ingredients: sliced potatoes or corn; healthier oils, such as sunflower or corn oil and salt, and are then simply prepared.
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Frito-Lay uses healthier oils in the cooking process, such as:
- sunflower oil with 90% poly/mono-unsaturated fat and 0 grams trans fat.
- corn oil with 87% poly/mono-unsaturated fat and 0 grams trans fat.
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Most consumers would be surprised by how much good stuff is in their favorite snack! Below is a chart outlining the simple ingredients found in snack chips and the nutritional benefits they offer.
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| Made from potatoes or corn and healthier oils such as sunflower and corn oil, many of Frito-Lay’s products are a source of important nutrients, including potassium, iron and vitamins C.
In a 10 oz bag of Lay’s® Classic there are about:
- 4.5 medium potatoes
- 7 tsp oil
- 0.7 tsp salt
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In a 1oz serving of Lay’s® Classic there is about 180mg (7%DV) of sodium.
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| POTASSIUM |
IRON |
MONOUNSATURATED FAT |
SODIUM |
- Helps regulate fluids and mineral balance in and out cells.
- Helps maintain normal blood pressure.
- Helps transmit nerve signals.
- Helps contract muscles.
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- Serves as an essential part of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in your blood.
- Helps in brain development.
- Supports a healthy immune system.
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- All fats supply the body with energy.
- Fats also play a vital role in maintaining healthy skin and hair, insulating body organs against shock, maintaining body temperature, and promoting healthy cell function.
- Monounsaturated fats (MUFAs) have been shown to decrease total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol and maintain HDL cholesterol.
- The beneficial effects are seen if they replace saturated fat, but not if they are simply added, making the diet higher in total fat.
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- Helps regulate fluids and mineral balance in and out cells.
- Helps maintain normal blood pressure.
- Helps transmit nerve signals.
- Helps muscles, including the heart, relax contract.
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THIAMIN |
POLYUNSATURATED FAT |
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- Helps produce collagen, a connective tissue that holds muscles, bones, and other tissues together.
- Helps keep capillary walls and blood vessels firm, so protects from bruising.
- Helps absorb iron from plant sources of food.
- Helps heal cuts and wounds, and keep gums healthy.
- Protects from infection and boosts immunity.
- Works as an antioxidant to inhibit damage to body cells.
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- Helps produce energy from carbohydrates in all cells.
- Essential for the functioning of the heart, muscles, and nervous system.
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- Polyunsaturated fats help your body get rid of newly formed cholesterol, keeping the blood cholesterol level down and reducing cholesterol deposits in artery walls.
- Omega-6 polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) have been shown to decrease risk for heart disease by decreasing total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.
- Omega-3 PUFAs have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and sudden death. The modes of action are not fully understood, but are due in large part to anti-inflammatory / anti-thrombotic capacity and triglyceride reduction.
- Like MUFAS, the beneficial effects of PUFAs are seen if they replace saturated fat, but not if they are simply added, making the diet higher in total fat.
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| IRON |
RIBOFLAVIN |
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- Serves as an essential part of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood.
- Helps in brain development.
- Supports a healthy immune system.
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- Helps produce energy in all body cells.
- Helps convert the amino acid tryptophan into niacin.
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| VITAMIN B6 |
MAGNESIUM |
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- Helps build amino acids, the building blocks of protein.
- Helps turn the amino acid tryptophan into niacin and serotonin.
- Helps produce other body chemicals, including insulin, hemoglobin, and antibodies that fight infection.
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- Serves as an important part of more than three hundred enzymes.
- Helps maintain body cells in nerves and muscles, and signals muscles to relax and contract.
- Serves as a component of bones.
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| THIAMIN |
NIACIN |
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- Helps produce energy from carbohydrates in all cells.
- Essential for the functioning of the heart, muscles, and nervous system.
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- Helps the body metabolize sugars and fatty acids to be used as energy.
- Helps enzymes function normally.
- Helps produce energy in all body cells.
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| MAGNESIUM |
PHOSPHORUS |
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- Serves as an important part of more than three hundred enzymes.
- Helps maintain body cells in nerves and muscles, and signals muscles to relax and contract.
- Serves as a component of bones.
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- Acts as the main regulator of energy metabolism.
- Is a major component of bones and teeth, second only to calcium.
- Serves as a part of DNA and RNA.
- Helps produce energy in all body cells as a component of ATP.
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| NIACIN |
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- Helps the body metabolize sugars and fatty acids to be used as energy.
- Helps enzymes function normally.
- Helps produce energy in all body cells.
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- Acts as the main regulator of energy metabolism.
- Is a major component of bones and teeth, second only to calcium.
- Serves as a part of DNA and RNA.
- Helps produce energy in all body cells as a component of ATP.
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Click here to download Simple Ingredients for Smart Snacking (PDF)
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