Queso Grain Free Puff Snacks

How it scored 85 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 20 listed

• 1 Lentil Flour
  Flour milled from dried lentils (Lens culinaris).
  Safe
• 2 Potato Starch
  Native starch extracted from potato tubers.
  Safe
• 3 Tapioca Starch
  Starch extracted from the cassava root (Manihot esculenta).
  Safe
• 4 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 5 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 6 Avocado Oil
  Edible oil pressed from the pulp of avocado fruit (Persea americana Mill.).
  Safe
• 7 queso seasoning —
• 8 Nutritional Yeast
  Deactivated yeast (typically Saccharomyces cerevisiae) grown on molasses, then heated, washed, and dried. Yellow flakes or powder with a sav…
  Safe
• 9 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 10 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 11 Tomato
  Fruit of the Solanum lycopersicum plant.
  Safe
• 12 Date
  Sweet edible fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera).
  Safe
• 13 Beetroot Powder
  Dehydrated beetroot (Beta vulgaris) ground to a fine powder; also commercially available as 'beet juice concentrate' for color use.
  Safe
• 14 Red Chili Pepper
  Mature red fruit of Capsicum annuum or related species; whole vegetable/spice.
  Safe
• 15 Capsicum Frutescens Fruit Powder
  Dried, ground fruit of Capsicum frutescens (e.g., tabasco/bird's eye chili) — a hot pepper species containing capsaicinoids.
  Safe
• 16 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 17 Matcha
  Finely ground powder made from shade-grown green tea leaves (Camellia sinensis).
  Safe
• 18 Mushroom Powder
  Dehydrated and ground edible mushrooms (e.g., porcini, shiitake, button).
  Safe
• 19 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 20 Lactic Acid
  Organic acid (E270) naturally produced by lactic acid bacteria during fermentation; also produced industrially.
  Low