Lay’s Lightly Salted Potato Chips: 160 Calories
Each serving of wavy lightly salted wavy potato chips has 160 calories, 10 grams fat, 15 grams carbohydrates, and 2 grams protein. The lightly salted variety of classic potato chips has 50% less sodium than Lay’s original recipe.
Read this comprehensive overview to learn more about the calories, nutrition facts, and ingredients in the potato chips.
Calories and Nutrition
Calories and nutrition facts are based on a single serving size of about 15 chips with a total net weight of 28 grams.
Calories
One serving of 15 chips has 160 total calories. More than half of the total calories are derived from fat.
Carbohydrates contribute about 38% of the total calories and the remaining 6% is from protein.
- 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 printed on the Lay’s packaging.
Sodium
Lay’s has developed a line of snack chips with reduced sodium and fat. Marketed as Better For You, the snacks include Lay’s® Lightly Salted Potato Chips.
I applaud the effort. Dietary Guidelines for Americans set by the FDA suggest reducing total sodium in the daily diet to less than 2,300 milligrams.
The total sodium per serving in this snack is only 65 milligrams. Compared with many of the other potato chips and corn chips we have researched, that’s about half (or less). Lay’s Sour Cream & Onion, for example, has 200 milligrams per serving.
Nutrition Facts
Not a significant source of added sugars.
Ingredients and Allergens
Ingredients
Although the type of vegetable oil may vary, there are only three ingredients in Lay’s Lightly Salted Potato Chips. The ingredients in these snack chips include potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt.
Sunflower oil, corn oil, and/or canola oil may be used.
Allergens
According to the FDA, the most common food allergens are milk, peanuts, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, soy, tree nuts, wheat and sesame.
These potato chips do not contain any of the common food allergens.
Nutrition facts and ingredients source: Lay’s
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