Doritos

Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips

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Food Quality

47/100

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Some meaningful nutrition or processing drawbacks.

Calculated from this package’s nutrition and ingredients — not votes, likes, or popularity.

High sodium · Low added sugar · Good fiber

What held this back

  • Long ingredient list — 35 ingredients
  • High sodium — 714 mg / 100
  • Artificial colors (4)
  • Refined sweeteners (3)
Nutrition
35/60
Processing
9/25
Ingredient list
3/15

Solid-food profile · Nutrition + processing + ingredient list = 100

Data completeness

Complete

Source verification

Package verified

Complete nutrition panel · Complete ingredient list · Verified nutrition source

On the label

per 100g

Calories
536
Sat fat
3.6g
Carbs
57g
Sugar
2.1g
Protein
7.1g
Sodium
714mg

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Pharma Footprint

89%

EXTENSIVE OVERLAP

LOWMODERATEHIGHEXTENSIVE

11 of 13 scored ingredients also appear in documented pharmaceutical formulations.

What else is in it?

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11

crossover ingredients

20

documented formulations

8

pharma companies

9

medical uses

Company and medical-use counts above are product aggregates across all crossover ingredients. Individual ingredient cards use ingredient-only edges.

Evidence confidence: Strong

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Strong documented support

Verified crossover ingredients

See which ingredients create the connection — and where else they show up.

11 verified crossovers

Verified crossover

Citric acid

What it does in food
Acidulant
What it does in pharma
pH adjuster and stabilizer in oral and injectable preparations
Pharma role
Documented as an inactive ingredient / excipientIt helps formulate the medicine; it is not necessarily providing the therapeutic effect.

88

formulations

3

pharma companies

1

medical-use areas

Documented in medicines used for

General medicine

The medical use describes the medication, not necessarily this ingredient's therapeutic role.

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Verified crossover

Lactose

What it does in food
Carbohydrate
What it does in pharma
Widely used tablet and capsule diluent
Pharma role
Role not classifiedRole varies by formulation — check each medicine’s documentation.

36

formulations

—

companies pending

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uses pending

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Verified crossover

Yellow 6

What it does in food
Color
What it does in pharma
Colorant in oral formulations
Pharma role
Documented as an inactive ingredient / excipientIt helps formulate the medicine; it is not necessarily providing the therapeutic effect.

34

formulations

1

pharma companies

1

medical-use areas

Documented in medicines used for

General medicine

The medical use describes the medication, not necessarily this ingredient's therapeutic role.

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Most documented crossover

Citric acid

Highest formulation-record count among verified crossover ingredients in this product.

Also documented across 88 documented formulations · 3 pharma companies · 1 medical uses.

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Counts below are for Citric acid only — not the whole product.

  1. This food

    Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips

  2. Ingredient

    Citric acid

  3. Documented formulations

    88 records

  4. Medical uses

    General medicine

  5. Companies

    3 companies linked to this ingredient

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Where these connections show up in medicine

Medical-use categories describe the medication — not necessarily a therapeutic role for the food ingredient.

  • General medicine13 documented formulations
  • Respiratory3 documented formulations
  • Allergy2 documented formulations
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Pharma connections

Companies associated with documented pharmaceutical formulations containing these same verified ingredients.

8 companies connected

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All ingredients

35 ingredients on label

  • Corn

    Excluded from Pharma Footprint

  • Vegetable oil

    Excluded from Pharma Footprint

  • Maltodextrin

    ● Verified crossover

  • Salt

    Excluded from Pharma Footprint

  • Cheddar cheese

    Excluded from Pharma Footprint

Why this matters

Here's what we found: some food ingredients also show up in documented pharmaceutical formulations. We show the connection and the evidence — you decide what it means.

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