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==Nutritional information== As with most snack foods, the Lay's brands contain very few vitamins and minerals in any variety. At ten percent of the daily requirement per serving, [[vitamin C]] is the highest. Salt content is particularly high, with a serving containing as much as 380 mg of sodium.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-12-13 |title=The Health Story Behind Lays Potato Chips: A Nutritional Exploration |url=https://nutriinsights.com/lays-potato-chips-nutrition/ |access-date=2024-12-22 |language=en}}</ref> A one-ounce (28 gram) serving of Lay's regular potato chips has 160 [[calorie]]s, and contains ten grams of [[fat]], with one gram of [[saturated fat]].<ref name=":0" /> Kettle-cooked brands have seven to eight grams of fat and one gram of saturated fat, and are 140 calories. Lay's Natural has nine grams of fat, two grams of saturated fat and 150 calories. Stax chips typically contain ten grams of fat, 2.5 grams saturated fat, and are 160 calories per serving. Wavy Lay's are identical to the regular brand, except for a half-gram less of saturated fat in some combinations. Now the various brands do not contain any [[trans fat]]s.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} A 50 gram serving of Lay's BarBQ chips contains 270 calories, and 17 grams of fat. It also contains 270 mg of sodium, and 15% of the daily recommended dose of [[Vitamin C]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Calories in Lay's BBQ Chips and Nutrition Facts |url=https://www.fatsecret.ca/calories-nutrition/lays/bbq-chips/27-chips |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=www.fatsecret.ca}}</ref> The baked variety, introduced in the mid 1990s, feature 1.5 grams of fat per one ounce serving, and have no saturated fat. Each serving has 110 to 120 calories. Lay's Light servings are 75 calories per ounce and have no fat.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 17, 2012 |title=What Were They Thinking? The Chips That Sent Us Running To The Loo |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1809002/what-were-they-thinking-chips-sent-us-running-loo |website=fastcompany.com}}</ref> Lay's Classic Potato chips were cooked in hydrogenated oil until 2003.<ref>Tracy Sayler [http://www.iomsa.org/leads/OMGdec06.pdf A Defining Moment for Sunflower] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726182913/http://www.iomsa.org/leads/OMGdec06.pdf |date=July 26, 2011 }}. Oil Mill Gazetteer • Volume 112, December 2006</ref> In 2024, according to ET, in the United States the chips are made with sunflower, corn and/or canola oil.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-05-09 |title=Lay’s potato chips to soon have sunflower oil blend? PepsiCo India begins trials - here’s why |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/lays-potato-chips-to-soon-have-sunflower-oil-blend-pepsico-india-begins-trials-heres-why/articleshow/109978601.cms |access-date=2025-04-19 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
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