Lay’s Simply Sea Salt Thick Cut Potato Chips
Lay’s Sea Salt Thick Cut Potato Chips are gluten-free and made with only three ingredients (potatoes, oil, and salt) and verified as Non-GMO. Many of the consumer reviews prefer this thicker cut because they do not break apart as easily as many of the other potato chips on the market.
Each serving of about 17 chips with a total net weight of 28 grams has 160 calories, 10 grams total fat, 15 grams carbohydrates, and 2 grams of protein.
Read this brief for a complete overview of the calories, nutrition facts, and ingredients in thick cut sea salted Lay’s potato chips.
Calories and Nutrition Facts
All calories and nutrition facts information is based on a single serving. One serving is measured as about 17 chips with a net weight of 28 grams.
Calories
Each serving of sea salted chips has 160 calories. There are only two grams of protein, which contributes a nominal amount of calories.
Over half of the total calories are derived from fat and carbohydrates make up about 38% of the calories.
- Fat: 90 calories
- Carbs: 60 calories
- Protein: 10 calories
- Total: 160 calories per serving
The caloric breakout by nutrient is a rounded estimate based on the nutrition facts label provided by Frito-Lay
Fat
There are 10 grams of total fat, including 1 gram of saturated fat, in each serving of the snack chips.
NOTE: When you check the total fat on nutrition facts labels of packaged foods, the general guideline is 5% daily value for fat is considered low. A 20% (or higher) daily value is considered high.
FDA Daily Value Recommendation
Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest limiting the number of calories from total fat to 35% or less of total calories consumed throughout the day. The 10 grams of fat (90 calories) in these chips are about 13-16% of the limit (based on a 2,000 calorie diet).
Here is how the percentage of total calories from fat is calculated:
- 10g fat x 9 calories per gram = 90 calories (13% of a 2,000 calorie diet)
The last point I want to make is a simple reminder that the 10 grams of fat is based on a single serving of about 17 chips. If you eat more or less than that amount, the quantity of nutrients changes accordingly.
Sodium
As with most potato chips, and especially chips flavored with salt, it makes sense to take note of the amount of sodium. Each 28 gram serving (17 chips) contains 140 milligrams of sodium.
Nutrition Facts
Not a significant source of added sugars.
Ingredients and Allergens
Ingredients
There are only three ingredients in Simply™ Lay’s® Sea Salted Thick Cut Potato Chips. The list includes potatoes, sunflower oil, and sea salt.
Allergens
According to the FDA, the most common food allergens are milk, peanuts, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, soy, tree nuts, wheat and sesame. None of these items are used in the making of the sea salted chips.
Nutrition facts and ingredients source: Lay’s
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