Pringles Ingredients — Everything That Is Wrong With This Snack
Pringles are not technically potato chips. They are a pressed mixture of dehydrated potato flakes, wheat starch, and additives.
Not a chip, not a cracker, not quite food
Pringles contain so little actual potato that the company once argued in a UK tax court that they should not be classified as potato chips. The base is a dough made from dehydrated potato flakes, corn starch, wheat starch, and rice flour.
The ingredient reality
Original Pringles contain dried potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, high oleic soybean, or sunflower oil), degerminated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, rice flour, maltodextrin, mono and diglycerides, salt, and wheat starch. Flavored varieties add MSG, artificial flavors, disodium inosinylate, and various colorings.
Multiple seed oils, maltodextrin, and extensive processing put this product firmly in the ultra-processed category.
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