Ingredients. Corn, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Canola and/or Sunflower Oil), and Salt.

Corn chips are a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid, very crunchy, have the strong aroma and flavor of roasted corn, and are often heavily seasoned with salt.

Tortilla chips are generally manufactured from coarsely ground masa from either fresh masa or dry flour that is sheeted, formed, and cut in preparation for the subsequent steps of baking, equilibrating, frying, and salting/seasoning.

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Tostitos is a brand of Frito-Lay that produces different tortilla chips and a range of accompanying dips.

Tostitos white corn scoops is made with 100 percent white corn, vegetable oil and salt.

The heat also traps tiny pockets of moisture in the dough. Creating little blisters this gives the tortilla chips their trademark bumpy texture from.

For example, corn chips made from yellow corn are fried at 320 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius), while those made from blended white and yellow corn are fried at temperatures up to 410 degrees Fahrenheit (210 degrees Celsius) for 60 to 90 seconds.

Corn tortillas are a round, thin, unleavened bread made with coarse masa flour (ground, dried and sifted masa dough) or “flourless” fresh masa made from corn that has been treated with lime in a process called nixtamalization.

A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried or baked (alternatively they may be discs pressed out of corn masa then fried or baked). Corn tortillas are made of nixtamalized corn, vegetable oil, salt and water.

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Lightly salted or unsalted tortilla chips may not be bad for you, but flavored varieties could be worse for your health because they are higher in sodium. For example, taco-flavored tortilla chips have 200 milligrams of sodium, according to the USDA.