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Today’s chips brand is Boulder Canyon. These tasty potato chips are produced by UTZ and come with a wide range of flavors. But, are Boulder Canyon chips vegan?
All flavors of Boulder Canyon chips are vegan except Cheddar Sour Cream, Jalapeno Cheddar and Sharp White Cheddar. The reason these three flavors are not vegan is because they contain milk.
Below is a table showing Boulder Canyon chips flavors and its vegan status.
| Flavor | Vegan Status |
| Boulder Canyon Potato Chips Thin & Crispy Avocado Oil Classic Sea Salt | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Potato Chips Thin & Crispy Avocado Oil Cheddar Sour Cream | No, contains Milk. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Avocado Oil Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Avocado Oil Sea Salt | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Olive Oil Sea Salt | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips 60% Less Sodium | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Olive Oil Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Hickory BBQ | Vegan. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Jalapeno Cheddar | No, contains Milk. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Sharp White Cheddar | No, contains Milk. |
If you want more potato chips to choose from then check out our Best Vegan Chips Flavors List where we found over 130 vegan chips flavors.
Boulder Canyon Chips Ingredients
Below is a list of ingredients from all the Boulder Canyon chips flavors that I could find.
- Avocado Oil
- Cane Sugar
- Canola Oil
- Cheddar Cheese
- Cheese Culture
- Citric Acid
- Dextrose
- Distilled White Vinegar
- Dried Garlic
- Dried Onion
- Enzymes
- Fructose
- Garlic Powder
- Lactic Acid Powder
- Malt Extract
- Malt Vinegar
- Maltodextrin
- Milk
- Modified Corn Starch
- Molasses Powder
- Natural Flavors
- Natural Smoke Flavor
- Nonfat Milk
- Olive Oil
- Onion Powder
- Paprika
- Paprika Extract (Color)
- Potatoes
- Rice Flour
- Safflower Oil
- Salt
- Sea Salt
- Sodium Phosphate
- Sour Cream
- Spice Extract
- Spices
- Sunflower Oil
- Tomato Powder
- Vitamin E
- Whey
- White Vinegar Powder
- Yeast Extract
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As always I’ve highlighted the ingredients that we need to take a closer look at.
Non-Vegan Ingredients
Milk
Several ingredients derived from milk can be found in some of the Boulder Canyon chips flavors such as whey, sour cream, cheese.
Cows milk is not a vegan ingredient.
Questionable Ingredients
Cane Sugar
This type of sugar is one of the most commonly used in the candy and snack industry. There is a problem that follows cane sugar that trouble vegans, more specifically refined cane sugar. In the refining process the cane sugar is bleached to fit the product better.
The most common bleaching process is to use bone char from dead cows. This raises an issue for vegan because it’s exploiting animals even tho it’s from dead animals. This makes cane sugar bleached this this method non-vegan.
Enzymes
Enzymes can be made from both animals and plants. It’s no way of knowing the source unless it’s disclosed by the company.
Natural Flavors
This ingredient can be a bit tricky because it’s basically an umbrella term, which means that companies can hide ingredient here without needing to disclose them. It can be both ingredients derived from plants and animals.
There an article at National Geographic where they disclosed the use of butt go from beavers in vanilla flavors. Imagine what kind of ingredient that cane be found in products if butt go from beavers is okay to use. Anyway this is an rare occasion and most of the times Natural Flavors are vegan in chips flavors.
FAQ
Are Boulder Canyon Chips Vegetarian?
All flavors of Boulder Canyon chips are vegetarian, because some of the flavors only contain milk and no other derived ingredients from animals.
| Flavor | Vegetarian Status |
| Boulder Canyon Potato Chips Thin & Crispy Avocado Oil Classic Sea Salt | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Potato Chips Thin & Crispy Avocado Oil Cheddar Sour Cream | Lacto-Ovo & Lacto. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Avocado Oil Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Avocado Oil Sea Salt | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Olive Oil Sea Salt | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips 60% Less Sodium | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Olive Oil Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Hickory BBQ | All Vegetarians. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Jalapeno Cheddar | Lacto-Ovo & Lacto. |
| Boulder Canyon Kettle Potato Chips Sharp White Cheddar | Lacto-Ovo & Lacto. |
Conclusion
Knowing if a product is vegan or not can be sometimes be hard to determine and this is why I made this article to help you. A lot of potato chips flavors are vegan, but the usage of milk is popular in some flavors.
As you can see from the table of flavors in this article, a lot of the Boulder Canyon chips flavors are vegan, with only three flavors containing milk.
Thanks for reading, take care.
