Household Ingredients Compared › Tortilla Chips (Singapore)
Almost every corn tortilla chip on a Singapore shelf starts the same way — corn, then vegetable oil, then salt — and then diverges on the seasoning. Plain / lightly salted chips stop there, or nearly. Cheese-flavoured chips add whey, milk powders and several cheeses, plus flavour enhancers and artificial colours. BBQ, taco and sweet-chilli chips add sugar, molasses, tomato powder, spices and smoke or soy-based seasonings. The front of the bag rarely makes that split clear; the ingredient list does.
This page covers corn tortilla chips sold in Singapore — triangular / round corn chips sold as a snack, including plain, cheese, BBQ, taco, chilli and sweet-chilli flavours. Flavour variants are separate rows, because their seasoning lists differ. Dips, salsas and guacamole are a separate category and are not included here, even when they are sold next to the chips or in the same brand range. Corn snacks that are not tortilla chips (for example Twisties, Cheezels, Cheetos and Lotte Kokkal Corn, which appear in the same FairPrice "Corn Chips & Tortillas" category) are also out of scope here. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick.
| Product | Type | First ingredient | Added sugar / sweetener? | Pack size (as printed) | Country of manufacture (as printed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doritos Tortilla Chips — Cool Ranch | Flavoured, cheese / ranch | Corn | Yes — sugar; also dextrose, corn syrup solids | 1984g (FairPrice listing; see notes) | China |
| Doritos Tortilla Chips — Spicy Nacho | Flavoured, cheese / spicy | Corn | Yes — dextrose, sugar | 1984g (FairPrice listing; see notes) | China |
| Doritos Tortilla Chips — Smoking BBQ | Flavoured, BBQ | Corn | Yes — sugar (3rd), molasses powder | 190g | China |
| Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Tortilla Chips | Flavoured, sweet chilli | Corn | Yes — sugar, fructose, dextrose | not stated | not stated |
| Mission Tortilla Chips — Garlic & Butter | Flavoured, garlic & butter | Whole stoneground corn treated with lime | Yes — sugar in seasoning; also aspartame | 170g | China |
Panelled with verbatim lists: 5 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below — it includes Doritos Nacho Cheese and Taco, all other Mission flavours, Tostitos, Old El Paso, Santa Maria and the FairPrice house brand. No plain / original tortilla chip is panelled yet.
Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.
Pack size: 1984g (FairPrice listing; see notes) · Made in: China (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Corn, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Canola, and/or Sunflower Oil), Maltodextrin (Made from Corn), Salt, Tomato Powder, Corn Starch, Lactose, Whey, Skim Milk, Corn Syrup Solids, Onion Powder, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Monosodium Glutamate, Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Dextrose, Malic Acid, Buttermilk, Natural and Artificial Flavours, Sodium Acetate, Artificial Colour (Including Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5), Sodium Caseinate, Spice, Citric Acid, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate. • Contains milk ingredients.
FairPrice lists country/place of origin as China (noting it may vary). A long seasoning list: tomato powder, lactose, whey, skim milk, corn syrup solids, Cheddar cheese, buttermilk and sodium caseinate all point to a dairy-led flavour, with monosodium glutamate, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate as flavour enhancers and three artificial colours. Cheese / ranch Allergen: milk Added sugar: sugar, dextrose, corn syrup solids Origin: China (listing)
Pack size: 1984g (FairPrice listing; see notes) · Made in: China (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Corn, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Corn, and/or Canola Oil), Maltodextrin (Made from Corn), Salt, Whey, Monosodium Glutamate, Buttermilk, Romano Cheese (Cow's Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Corn Starch, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Dextrose, Natural and Artificial Flavour, Spices, Lactose, Sodium Caseinate, Artificial Colour (Including Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 6, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5), Citric Acid, Sugar, Lactic Acid, Skim Milk, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate. • Contains milk ingredients.
FairPrice lists country/place of origin as China (noting it may vary). The cheese base is Romano + Cheddar, with whey, buttermilk, lactose, sodium caseinate and skim milk alongside. This is the same core list that also appears in the FairPrice Lay's Variety Bold Mix ingredient section for "Doritos Spicy Nacho Flavored Tortilla Chips". Cheese / spicy Allergen: milk Added sugar: dextrose, sugar Origin: China (listing)
Pack size: 190g · Made in: China (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Corn, Vegetable Oil, Sugar, Salt, Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate 621, Sodium 5'-Ribonucleotide 635), Molasses Powder, Onion Powder, Flavours (Natural), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Acetate 262I, Citric Acid 330), Tomato Powder, Spice, Garlic Powder, Corn Starch, Anti-caking Agent (Silicon Dioxide 551), Colour (Paprika Extract 160C), Smoke Flavour. • Contains cereal containing gluten.
FairPrice lists country/place of origin as China. Sugar is third — ahead of salt — and molasses powder follows the flavour enhancers, so this is the sweetest-starting panelled chip by list order. Unlike the cheese Doritos, no cheese, whey or milk ingredient is listed; the gluten flag is the allergen note given. Note the oil is listed only as "Vegetable Oil", with no oils named. BBQ Added sugar: sugar, molasses powder Allergen: cereal containing gluten Origin: China (listing)
Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section, via Lay's Variety Bold Mix): Corn, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Canola, and/or Sunflower Oil), Salt, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Fructose, Sodium Diacetate, Soy Sauce (Soybean, Wheat, Salt), Onion Powder, Maltodextrin (Made From Corn), Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein, Garlic Powder, Torula Yeast, Malic Acid, Extractives of Paprika, Spices, Caramel Color, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Dextrose, and Natural Flavor. CONTAINS SOY AND WHEAT INGREDIENTS.
Flag — source: this list was retrieved from the FairPrice ingredient section for Lay's Variety Bold Mix, which lists the Spicy Sweet Chili chips as a named component with their own full list. It is not taken from a standalone Spicy Sweet Chili product page, which was not opened in this pass. Do not treat it as a standalone-pack transcription until a single-flavour pack is checked. The soy sauce, hydrolyzed soy protein and wheat in the soy sauce are why this flavour carries soy and wheat flags that the cheese Doritos do not. Sweet chilli Allergen: soy, wheat Added sugar: sugar, fructose, dextrose
Pack size: 170g · Made in: China (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Whole Stoneground Corn Treated with Lime, Vegetable Palm Oil, Water, Garlic and Butter Flavour Seasoning [Sugar, Garlic Powder, Salt, Food Flavour, Monosodium Gulatamate, Corn Starch, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Butter (Contains Milk), Silicon Dioxide, Tricalcium Orthophospate, Disodium 5'-Ribonucleotide, Aspartame (contains Phenylalanine), Vitamin E], Carotenes (Vegetables).
FairPrice lists country/place of origin as China, and the brand claims "Made from 100% real corn" and "30% less oil than potato chips" in its key information. Spelling as printed on the FairPrice page, including "Monosodium Gulatamate" and "Tricalcium Orthophospate" — those are the retailer's transcriptions, not corrected here. Aspartame (contains phenylalanine) is inside the seasoning blend; butter (contains milk) is the only dairy ingredient listed. Garlic & butter Allergen: milk (butter) Added sugar: sugar; sweetener: aspartame Oil: vegetable palm oil Origin: China (listing)
FairPrice's "Corn Chips & Tortillas" category was inventoried from its category listing on 5 November 2026. The tortilla chips found there were: Doritos Nacho Cheese, Spicy Nacho, Smoking BBQ, Taco and Cool Ranch (plus a smaller Nacho Cheese listing); Mission Original, Garlic & Butter, Multigrain, Hot & Spicy and Cheese; Tostitos Classic Restaurant Style; FairPrice Tortilla Chips — Nacho Cheese and Spicy Nacho Cheese; Santa Maria Tex Mex Tortilla Chips BBQ, Tortilla Chips Chili and Tex Mex Nacho Chips Original; and Lay's Variety Bold Mix (a mixed pack containing Doritos Spicy Nacho and Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili, panelled above via its ingredient section). Non-tortilla items in the same category — Twisties, Cheezels, Cheetos, FairPrice Layered Chips and Lotte Kokkal Corn — are out of scope for this page and are not counted as tortilla chips. Only the five products panelled above had a verbatim FairPrice ingredient section retrieved in this pass; the rest are in seen-but-not-verified.
All figures in the table are per serving, as printed on the FairPrice listing — not per 100 g. FairPrice gives nutrition per serving only for these chips (28 g, 33 g or 25 g servings), so no per-100 g figure is shown and none has been calculated by converting the serving figures. Serving sizes differ between products, so the rows are not directly comparable gram-for-gram — read each row on its own serving. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars; the ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.
Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg, per serving) with the salt equivalent in brackets, also per serving. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.
Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted in the research notes.
Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. The 190g pack is not the serving — the serving is 28 g, 33 g or 25 g as stated per row.
| Product | Basis | Energy | Protein | Total fat | Saturated fat | Carbohydrate | Sugars | Sodium (salt equiv.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doritos Cool Ranch | Per serving (28g — about 12 chips), as printed | 150 kcal | 2 g | 8 g | 1 g | 18 g | < 1 g | 180 mg (salt 0.45 g) |
| Doritos Spicy Nacho | Per serving (28g — about 12 chips), as printed | 140 kcal | 2 g | 8 g | 1 g | 16 g | 0 g | 190 mg (salt 0.48 g) |
| Doritos Smoking BBQ | Per serving (33g), as printed | 166 kcal | 2 g | 8 g | 4 g | 20 g | 1 g | 256 mg (salt 0.64 g) |
| Mission Garlic & Butter | Per serving (25g), as printed | 119 kcal | 1.9 g | 5.3 g | 2 g | 15.2 g | 0.4 g | 71 mg (salt 0.18 g) |
Observed numbers, no verdict: per serving as printed, Doritos Smoking BBQ lists the highest sodium (256 mg per 33 g serving) and the highest saturated fat (4 g) of the four rows with nutrition; Mission Garlic & Butter lists the lowest sodium (71 mg per 25 g serving) and the lowest total fat (5.3 g). Doritos Cool Ranch lists 150 kcal per 28 g, Spicy Nacho 140 kcal per 28 g. Because serving sizes differ (25 g vs 28 g vs 33 g), these are not per-100 g comparisons and no ranking is drawn from them.
Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-serving or per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili (ingredient list only, via the variety-pack section), Doritos Nacho Cheese, Doritos Taco, any other Mission flavour, Tostitos Classic Restaurant Style, FairPrice house-brand tortilla chips, Old El Paso Nachips, Santa Maria Tortilla Chips, or any parallel-import Doritos flavour. Their ingredient status is as stated above; their nutrition figures are not estimated here, and no panelled row's figures are copied onto another flavour or pack size.
Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (Doritos Cool Ranch, Doritos Spicy Nacho, Doritos Smoking BBQ, Mission Garlic & Butter, and Lay's Variety Bold Mix for Doritos Spicy Nacho and Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili); FairPrice "Corn Chips & Tortillas" category listing (inventory); Cold Storage listings / promotions for Doritos (inventory only — no ingredient sections published); Shopee Singapore search listings for tortilla chips (inventory only — no verbatim lists retrieved); Open Food Facts / Garden Grocer US Doritos Nacho Cheese list (not used as an SG list — see seen-but-not-verified). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are per serving as printed on FairPrice listings, flagged as such and never converted to per 100 g; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.