Lay's Kettle Cooked Original
Summary
Lay's Kettle Cooked Original scores 17/100. Food Democracy Now / The Detox Project 2016 testing (Anresco Laboratories) confirmed positive for glyphosate (likely from the canola component of the seed oil blend). The ingredient deck is short — potatoes, vegetable oil (sunflower/corn/canola), sea salt — but the seed oil blend is the cooking medium and brings the inflammatory load and herbicide residue to an otherwise simple chip.
At a glance
Contaminants 1
Source: Anresco Laboratories
Glyphosate Detected High
Detected at a high level — at or above health-based exposure limits. Regular exposure at this level is a genuine health concern. Glyphosate is classified as a probable human carcinogen by IARC.
Food Democracy Now / The Detox Project 2016 testing (Anresco Laboratories, FDA-registered, LC-MS/MS) confirmed positive for glyphosate (likely from the canola portion of the vegetable oil blend).
Key ingredients 2
Vegetable Oil (sunflower/corn/canola blend)Very Bad
Refined high-omega-6 seed oil blend used as the kettle frying medium — chip is essentially saturated in this oil.
See more about Vegetable Oil (sunflower/corn/canola blend) →PotatoesNeutral
Whole potatoes are the base ingredient.
See more about Potatoes →Processing
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