Nutrition Facts For Baked Potato Chips

Frito-Lay is a leading snack company that produces a variety of snacks, such as chips. The company's baked potato chips are a combination of great tasting potato chips and reduced calories. The chips are intended to fit into the diet of a healthy lifestyle. Baked potato chips are available in a variety of flavors, including original, sour cream and onion, and barbecue. They are made from the same basic ingredients as regular fried potato chips, and contain similar nutrition.

Calories

A single-serving package--31.8 g--of baked potato chips has 130 calories, and 15 of those calories come from fat. The breakdown of calories comes primarily from carbohydrates--81 percent--with 12 percent of the calories coming from fat and the remaining 7 percent from protein.

Features

Dehydrated potatoes are the primary ingredient used to make baked potato chips. Additional ingredients are used for taste, texture, appearance and to preserve the product. These ingredients include modified food starch, sugar, corn oil, salt, soy lecithin, leavening and dextrose. After combining a specific blend of ingredients, baked potato chips are naturally baked instead of fried. Baked potato chips don't contain preservatives, trans fat, gluten ingredients, casein, lactose or MSG.

Carbohydrates

Because dehydrated potatoes are the primary ingredient, baked potato chips are high in carbohydrates. One serving of baked potato chips contains 26 g of total carbohydrates for 9 percent of the recommended daily intake. Of the 26 g of carbohydrates, 2 g are dietary fiber and 2 g are sugars.

Fat

Baking the potato chips instead of frying reduces the total fat content, but using oils during the mixing of the ingredients adds small amounts of fat. One serving contains 1.5 g of total fat for 2 percent of the recommended daily intake. Baked potato chips don't contain any saturated fat, trans fat or cholesterol.

Nutrients

Several nutrients, vitamins and minerals are found in small amounts in baked potato chips. Some of these are vitamin C, calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, magnesium and zinc.