Tortilla chips

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Acrylamide · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for acrylamide; EFSA (2015) counts a margin of exposure of 10,000 on a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 0.17 mg/kg body weight/day as low concern. A 50 g serving is 8.6 µg (0.123 µg/kg body weight) and adds 14-31% to EFSA's adult mean intake (0.4-0.9 µg/kg body weight/day), under doubling. The serving alone has a margin of about 1380; the average adult's is 189-425, both far below 10,000. Based on three samples. · CFIA 2013–2015 · A
• Acrylamide · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for acrylamide; EFSA (2015) counts a margin of exposure of 10,000 on a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 0.17 mg/kg body weight/day as low concern. A 50 g serving is 12.8 µg (0.182 µg/kg body weight) and adds 20-46% to EFSA's adult mean intake (0.4-0.9 µg/kg body weight/day), under doubling. The serving alone has a margin of about 930; the average adult's is 189-425, both far below 10,000. · FDA 2015 · A
• Acrylamide · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for acrylamide; EFSA (2015) counts a margin of exposure of 10,000 on a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 0.17 mg/kg body weight/day as low concern. A 50 g serving is 7.9 µg (0.113 µg/kg body weight) and adds 13-28% to EFSA's adult mean intake (0.4-0.9 µg/kg body weight/day), under doubling. The serving alone has a margin of about 1500; the average adult's is 189-425, both far below 10,000. · FDA 2011 · A
• Aflatoxins · Worth knowing · Flagged: no safe threshold is set for aflatoxins (EFSA 2020, benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) 0.4 µg/kg body weight/day for aflatoxin B1; a margin of exposure of 10,000 counts as low concern). None of the 18 samples had any aflatoxin, so a serving adds 0 at the lower bound. The upper bound cannot be built because the survey publishes no detection limit, so this stays a flag, not a number. Adult averages are 0.22-0.49 ng/kg body weight/day (lower bound), 1.35-3.25 (upper). · CFIA 2018–2019 · A
• Aflatoxins · Worth knowing · Flagged: no safe threshold is set for aflatoxins. As an illustration only, if every serving carried the 0.8 ppb average of positive samples, 50 g would be 40 ng, 0.57 ng/kg body weight: 117-260% of the lower-bound adult mean (0.22-0.49) but 18-42% of the upper-bound mean (1.35-3.25 ng/kg body weight/day), with a margin of exposure of about 700 against the benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10). The real category mean is lower (86% of corn products had no aflatoxin; the sub-category sample size is unpublished), so this is a flag, not a number. · CFIA targeted surveys: Aflatoxins 2010-2011 · B
• Arsenic, all forms · Context · Context only, never scored: total arsenic. Inorganic arsenic was not measured in chips (no source found). · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.91% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.56% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin) · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's group tolerable daily intake for deoxynivalenol is 1 µg/kg body weight/day (70 µg/day, 2017). A 50 g serving carries 0.278 µg, 0.40% of it, and adds 0.6-1.3% to the adult mean (0.3-0.7 µg/kg body weight/day = 21-49 µg/day). No more than about 12,600 g of chips a day would reach the limit, eaten alone; for a single sitting (acute reference dose 8 µg/kg body weight, 560 µg), about 100,000 g. · CFIA 2018–2019 · A
• Deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin) · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's group tolerable daily intake for deoxynivalenol is 1 µg/kg body weight/day (70 µg/day). A 50 g serving carries 4.78 µg, 6.8% of it, and adds 9.7-22.7% to the adult mean (21-49 µg/day), under doubling; about 733 g a day would reach the limit, eaten alone. One sample at 1,440 ng/g would put a serving at 72 µg, 103% of it: an observed extreme, not the basis of the rating. This 2010-11 row is 17 times the 2018-19 row; both are shown, neither is averaged, and the older one is flagged for recency. · CFIA 2010–2011 · A
• Fumonisins · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's group tolerable daily intake for fumonisins is 1.0 µg/kg body weight/day (2018), 70 µg/day. A 50 g serving carries 0.672 µg, 0.96% of it, so it stays under 1% of the limit whatever the adult average. No more than about 5,200 g of chips a day would reach it, eaten alone (about 1,080 g at the highest single sample, 65 µg/kg). · CFIA 2018–2019 · A
• Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: a 50 g serving adds 0.26% to the average adult's lead intake of 35 µg/day (0.091 µg; EFSA 2012), far from doubling it. The 2016 Quebec City composite alone (8.323 ng/g) would give 0.416 µg, 1.19%. No safe threshold is set for lead. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap on either bound: every sample was below detection, so the lower bound is 0; at the 4 ppb reporting limit a 50 g serving carries 0.2 µg, 0.57% of the average adult's 35 µg/day. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: nickel is rated against EFSA's tolerable daily intake of 13 µg/kg body weight/day (2020). The average adult already takes in 22-26% of it, under half, so a food would have to reach the limit on its own to matter. A 50 g serving carries 9.67 µg, 1.06% of the limit, and adds 2.7-10.6% to the adult mean (90-361 µg/day); about 4,700 g of chips a day would reach it, eaten alone. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: nickel is rated against EFSA's tolerable daily intake of 13 µg/kg body weight/day (2020). The average adult already takes in 22-26% of it, under half, so a food would have to reach the limit on its own to matter. A 50 g serving carries 7.0 µg, 0.77% of the limit; about 6,500 g of chips a day would reach it, eaten alone. A second source, beside the Canadian row. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Ochratoxin A · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for ochratoxin A; EFSA (2020) counts a margin of exposure of 10,000 on a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 14.5 µg/kg body weight/day as low concern. A 50 g serving is 1.03 ng, 0.015 ng/kg body weight, and adds 0.2-0.9% to the adult mean (lower-bound means 1.66-3.84, upper-bound 3.47-6.03 ng/kg body weight/day). The highest sample, 0.591 ng/g, gives 29.6 ng, 0.42 ng/kg body weight: 11-25% of the lower-bound mean. · CFIA ochratoxin A survey (2012–2022) · A
• Ochratoxin A · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe threshold is set for ochratoxin A. A 50 g serving is 3.36 ng, 0.048 ng/kg body weight, 0.8-2.9% of the lower-bound adult mean (1.66-3.84 ng/kg body weight/day). The highest sample, 1.844 ng/g, gives 92 ng, 1.32 ng/kg body weight: 34-79% of that mean. An older source, not averaged with the newer row. · CFIA 2010–2011 · A

Oxalate, phytate and gut-tolerance measurements

• fodmap fructan: 0.03 +/- 0.06 g/100 g of sample dry matter, n = 2: white maize flour (an ingredient, not nixtamalised, not a chip); the paper reports fructan and galactooligosaccharides together g/100 g dry matter · dry matter, ingredient flour · raw white maize flour (Pukanic Mill, Croatia) · grade B · Rados 2022
• fodmap fructan: not detected (ND) in corn flakes: fructan ND on dry-weight, fresh-weight and per-portion bases (the paper prints ND, no limit of detection in the table text read) g/100 g fresh weight · fresh weight, as sold · corn flakes (dry breakfast cereal, Slovenian grocery stores, 2022-2023) · grade B · Ferjancic 2024

Sources

• CFIA, FSAP Targeted Survey – Acrylamide 2013–2015
  cfia-acrylamide-2013-2015 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• CFIA targeted surveys: Aflatoxins 2010-2011; Aflatoxins in selected corn products, nuts, nut products... 2012-2013; Aflatoxins in chocolate, cocoa powder, grain-based foods, nuts and nut products, spices and wine 2014-2015
  cfia-aflatoxins-surveys · page · Government of Canada terms (not confirmed as OGL; no open-data CSV found)
• CFIA, Multi-Mycotoxins in Corn Products, Crackers, Other Grain Products, Pasta and Gluten-Free Products, 2018–2019
  cfia-multimyco-2018-2019 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• CFIA, Food Safety Action Plan Targeted Survey - Ochratoxin A in Selected Foods, 2012-2018 and 2019-2022
  cfia-ota-2012-2022 · dataset · Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0 (as for the other CFIA datasets; not checked on this page)
• CFIA, Food Safety Action Plan Targeted Survey - Ochratoxin A and Deoxynivalenol in Selected Foods - 2010-2011 (open data, datastore resource b87d36bc-a568-4dc5-8391-9d8afdbf6048)
  cfia-ota-don-2010-2011 · dataset · Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0
• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Public Health England, Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID) 2021
  cofid-2021 · dataset · Open Government Licence v3.0
• US FDA, Survey Data on Acrylamide in Food: Individual Food Products, data from 2011 (xlsx media/130926)
  fda-acrylamide-2011 · dataset · US Government work (public domain)
• US FDA, Survey Data on Acrylamide in Food: Individual Food Products, data from 2015 (xlsx media/130927; page content current as of 2024-03-05)
  fda-acrylamide-2015 · dataset · US Government work (public domain)
• US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement
  fda-tds-fy2018-2020 · dataset · US government work (17 USC 105), public domain
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Ferjancic B et al. 2024, Fructan content in most commonly consumed Slovenian foods, Front Nutr (PMC11327153)
  ferjancic2024 · full text read · CC BY 4.0
• Health Canada, Canadian Total Diet Study – Trace Elements (2005–2018 composites)
  hc-tds-trace-elements · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Rados K, Sukelj Mustac N, Varga K, Drakula S, Voucko B, Curic D, Novotni D. Development of high-fibre and low-FODMAP crackers. Foods 2022;11(17):2577 · doi:10.3390/foods11172577 · PMID 36076763
  rados2022 · full text read · CC BY (MDPI)

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.