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Pringles Potato Crisps Chips, Lunch Snacks, Office and Kids Snacks, Snack Stacks, Cheddar Cheese, 8.8oz Tray, 12 Cups
Snacks, Chips & Dips
📊 NOVA 4

Pringles Potato Crisps Chips, Lunch Snacks, Office and Kids Snacks, Snack Stacks, Cheddar Cheese, 8.8oz Tray, 12 Cups

Pringles
8.80 oz
Available at Foodtown
110
Calories
1g
Protein
1g
Sugars
135mg
Sodium
1g
Fiber
83
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Pringles Cheddar Cheese Snack Stacks arrive in a narrow tray of 12 single-serve cups and sit squarely in the chips & salty snacks aisle, often near other single-serve options, party mixes, lunchbox snacks and convenience-sized potato chip formats. You’ll find them on endcaps during back-to-school season or grouped with game-day and party displays. These travel-ready stacks are built for quick grabs on errands, packed lunches, road trips, or as something to stash at a desk for a mid-afternoon crunch. The Pringles brand leans on a pop-culture, nostalgic positioning — an iconic, playful snack that targets families with kids, commuters, and snackers who favor bold, cheesy flavor and portability over homemade simplicity. Marketing emphasizes convenience, shareability and over-the-top taste rather than health; packaging calls out portability and crisp texture and may use kid-friendly, colorful design, but it carries no organic certification and contains conventional processed-food claims like “light” or “travel-ready.” In plain language this product is highly processed: it’s a formulated crisp made from dried potato and multiple starches, oils and flavor systems rather than whole-food potato chips. Sensory-wise the crisps are uniformly thin, airy and stackable, delivering an immediate crunch and concentrated cheddar umami; single cups create a small ritual—peel back a lid, pop a stack into your mouth, repeat—making it convenient for portion control or on-the-go snacking. Overall it’s a modern, engineered convenience snack built for flavor, texture and ease rather than culinary minimalism.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1
Servings per Container: 12
Calories110
% Daily Value*
Total Fat7g9%
Saturated Fat2g10%
Sodium135mg6%
Total Carbohydrate12g4%
Dietary Fiber1g4%
Total Sugars1g
Protein1g
* 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:, Dried, Potatoes,, Vegetable, Oil, (Corn,, Cottonseed,, High, Oleic, Soybean,, And/Or, Sunflower, Oil),, Degerminated, Yellow, Corn, Flour,, Cornstarch,, Rice, Flour,, Maltodextrin,, Mono-, And, Diglycerides., Contains, 2%, Or, Less, Of, Whey,, Salt,, Monosodium, Glutamate,, Coconut, Oil,, Sugar,, Natural, Flavors,, Onion, Powder,, Citric, Acid,, Cheddar, Cheese, (Pasteurized, Milk,, Cheese, Cultures,, Salt,, Enzymes),, Blue, Cheese, (Pasteurized, Milk,, Cheese, Cultures,, Salt,, Enzymes),, Buttermilk,, Butter, (Cream,, Salt),, Lactic, Acid,, Nonfat, Milk,, Paprika, Extract, Color,, Disodium, Inosinate,, Disodium, Guanylate,, Turmeric, Extract, Color,, Yeast, Extract,, Autolyzed, Yeast, Extract,, Wheat, Starch..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • Corn - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Cottonseed - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • High Oleic Soybean - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Sunflower Oil - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Mono- And Diglycerides - Processed emulsifier
  • Monosodium Glutamate - Synthetic preservative
  • Paprika Extract Color - Artificial coloring
  • Turmeric Extract Color - Artificial coloring
No Seed OilNo EmulsifierNo PreservativeNo Additive

Dietary Labels

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

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:4 / 4

Ultra-Processed

Why this score?

Contains multiple industrial ingredients and additives (maltodextrin, mono- and diglycerides, flavor enhancers, yeast extracts, disodium inosinate/guanylate, natural flavors, color extracts) and is a reformulated snack product rather than a minimally processed food, consistent with NOVA group 4 (ultra-processed).

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Common Questions about Pringles Potato Crisps Chips, Lunch Snacks, Office and Kids Snacks, Snack Stacks, Cheddar Cheese, 8.8oz Tray, 12 Cups

Well, ‘healthy’ can mean different things depending on your goals! Pringles Cheddar Cheese has 110 calories per serving and contains 7g of fat, which might not be a top choice if you’re looking for something super nutrient-dense. But hey, if you’re just looking for a tasty snack to enjoy during a movie night, it’s all about balance, right?

Perfect For

back-to-school
game-day-prep
road-trip

Vibe:

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