Pringles Original

Name: Pringles Original
Brand: Pringles

Stackable potato crisps made from a dried-potato and corn dough, sold in the tall can. This is the plain salted flavour.

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Flagged ingredients4

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsSoybean oil, Corn oil, Cottonseed oil, Sunflower oil
PreservativesNone listed

Fails 1 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Soybean oil	Seed oils	CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL
Corn oil	Seed oils	CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL
Cottonseed oil	Seed oils	CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL
Sunflower oil	Seed oils	CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL

Ingredients as listed

DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, WHEAT STARCH.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2739556). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More stacked crisps first, then the rest of the chips and salty snacks aisle. Each passes all five checks.

Pringles Original

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What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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