Potato Chips Nutrition: A Detailed Breakdown (1oz Serving)

Potato chips are a popular and convenient snack, but also usually unhealthy. Be sure that you understand how potato chips affect your diet before you grab that next bag.

Serving

• There are multiple types of potato chips on the market, and multiple bag sizes available. For the sake of consistency, this guide gives you the nutrition for a small, single serving bag. This bag is one ounce, or 28g, of plain salted potato chips.

Calories

• Each one-ounce bag of potato chips supplies 153 calories. Generally, people don't stop at one serving if they're eating from a larger bag. Those who are watching their calorie count should avoid potato chips.

Fat

• One small serving of potato chips has 10g, or 16% of your daily recommended amount of fat. Of this, 3g are saturated fat. That's the fat that contributes to increased levels of cholesterol in the blood.

Sodium

• A one-ounce bag of potato chips supplies 147mg of sodium, which is 6 percent of your daily recommended maximum.

Protein

• Potato chips contain a small amount of protein per serving. Each one-ounce bag has 2g of protein.