Sweet Potato Fries

How it scored 70 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 20 listed

• 1 Sweet Potato
  Edible storage root of Ipomoea batatas, a whole vegetable rich in beta-carotene, fiber, and complex carbohydrates.
  Safe
• 2 Vegetable Oil
  Generic term covering edible oils extracted from plant sources (soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, palm, etc.).
  Low
• 3 Rice Flour
  Flour milled from rice grains.
  Safe
• 4 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 5 Tapioca
  Starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta), sold as flour, pearls, or flakes.
  Safe
• 6 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 7 Dextrin
  Dextrin: a carbohydrate produced by partial hydrolysis or roasting of starch; mixture of small glucose polymers.
  Low
• 8 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 9 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 10 Salad Mustard Powder
  Powdered mustard seed blend used to make prepared salad-style mustard or as a seasoning
  Low
• 11 Gluconic Acid
  Gluconic acid (E574) is a mild organic acid produced by oxidation of glucose, often by Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 12 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 13 Canola
  Canola (Brassica napus) — typically refers to canola oil, a low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil.
  Low
• 14 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
• 15 Distilled Vinegar
  Dilute (~5%) acetic acid solution produced by fermentation and distillation.
  Safe
• 16 Mustard Seed
  Seed of mustard plants (Brassica/Sinapis species), used as spice and condiment base.
  Low
• 17 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 18 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 19 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 20 high oleic canola —