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Cape Cod Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, Original Salt
Snacks, Chips & Dips
📊 NOVA 3🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-Free🥛 Dairy-Free

Cape Cod Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, Original Salt

Cape Cod®
8 oz
Available at Foodtown
140
Calories
2g
Protein
125mg
Sodium
2g
Fiber
11
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Cape Cod Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, Original Salt (8 oz) reads like a classic American snack: a sturdy, matte bag of kettle-style chips promising hearty potato flavor, pronounced crunch, and irregular, golden-brown folds. You'd spot it in the grocery snacks aisle — on eye-level shelves in the chip and pretzel section, often near salsas, sandwich chips, popcorn, and dip mixes — or in seasonal endcaps for summer cookouts. It fits a wide set of shopping occasions: last-minute party runs, picnic and road‑trip packing, or casual buys for movie night. The brand positions itself as a premium, heritage maritime snack with an artisanal bent: small-batch, kettle-cooked storytelling, appealing to adults who prize texture and “real” ingredients over novelty flavors. Label cues play into a light health halo — simple ingredient listing, “sea salt,” and no artificial flavor claims visible — but there is no organic certification or explicit kid-focused branding. In processing context, these are fried, batch-cooked chips made from sliced potatoes, vegetable oil and salt — a packaged, shelf-stable snack that results from cooking and portioning rather than heavy industrial reformulation. Sensory details: a crackling, coarse crunch; pronounced potato aroma with savory salt; variable chip shapes and folds that create a tactile eating ritual — pluck a chip from the bag, taste the toasted edge, stack and scoop with dips. The 8 oz bag is shareable yet portable, used at parties, paired with sandwiches, or kept for solo snacking. Overall, Cape Cod Original reads as a straightforward, premium kettle chip rooted in nostalgia and texture-driven enjoyment.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 oz
Servings per Container: 8
Calories140
% Daily Value*
Total Fat8g10%
Saturated Fat0.5g3%
Sodium125mg5%
Total Carbohydrate16g6%
Dietary Fiber2g7%
Protein2g
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:, POTATOES,, VEGETABLE, OIL, (CANOLA,, SUNFLOWER,, SAFFLOWER,, AND/OR, SOYBEAN),, SEA, SALT..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • canola - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • sunflower - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • safflower - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
No Seed Oil

Dietary Labels

This product is vegan, is gluten-free, and is not organic.

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:3 / 4

Processed Food

Why this score?

Ingredients are simple (potatoes, vegetable oil, sea salt) with no additives listed, but the product is industrially cooked, packaged, and shelf-stable, placing it in NOVA group 3 (processed foods).

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Common Questions about Cape Cod Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, Original Salt

Well, 'healthy' can mean different things depending on your goals! These chips are a tasty snack option with a modest 140 calories per ounce and no added sugars or preservatives. They can fit into a balanced diet, but remember, they’re still a processed snack, so moderation is key!

Perfect For

game-day-prep
movie-night
road-trip

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