garden Veggie Straws Zesty Ranch

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 33 listed

• 1 Veggie Straws
  Snack food made from potato starch, potato flour, and small amounts of tomato or spinach powder, shaped like straws.
  Moderate
• 2 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 3 Safflower Oil
  Edible oil pressed from safflower seeds (Carthamus tinctorius); high-linoleic or high-oleic variants.
  Safe
• 4 Sunflower Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of Helianthus annuus, typically high in linoleic acid (omega-6) or, in high-oleic varieties, ole…
  Low
• 5 Buttermilk
  Cultured buttermilk is fermented dairy from low-fat milk inoculated with lactic-acid bacteria.
  Low
• 6 Coconut Oil
  Edible oil extracted from coconut (Cocos nucifera) flesh; ~90% saturated fat (mostly medium-chain triglycerides, primarily lauric acid).
  Low
• 7 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 8 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 9 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 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 Dextrose
  D-glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide). Produced commercially by complete enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn starch.
  Moderate
• 13 Sour Cream
  Cultured dairy product made by fermenting cream with lactic acid bacteria.
  Low
• 14 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 15 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 16 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 17 Malic Acid
  Malic acid (E296) is a dicarboxylic acid found naturally in fruits, especially apples.
  Low
• 18 Potato Flour
  Flour made from cooked, dried, and ground whole potatoes.
  Safe
• 19 Potato Starch
  Native starch extracted from potato tubers.
  Safe
• 20 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 21 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 22 Spinach Powder
  Dried, ground leaves of Spinacia oleracea L.
  Safe
• 23 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 24 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 25 Beetroot Powder
  Dehydrated beetroot (Beta vulgaris) ground to a fine powder; also commercially available as 'beet juice concentrate' for color use.
  Safe
• 26 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 27 Cream
  The fat-rich liquid separated from milk. FDA standards of identity (21 CFR 131.150 / 131.155 / 131.157) classify by milkfat content: heavy c…
  Safe
• 28 Skimmed Milk
  Cow's milk from which most milkfat has been removed. FDA standard of identity for nonfat milk requires <0.5% milkfat; for nonfat dry milk, <…
  Safe
• 29 Microbial Culture
  Live or active cultures of bacteria/fungi used for fermentation (e.g., Lactobacillus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Bifidobacterium).
  Low
• 30 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 31 Celery Seed
  Dried seeds of celery (Apium graveolens) used as a spice.
  Low
• 32 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 33 Lactic Acid Safe