# Siete Foods Kettle Cooked Queso Potato Chips — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Siete Foods
- **Product:** Kettle Cooked Queso Potato Chips
- **GTIN:** 853986008092
- **Sold at:** checkout.sietefoods.com
- **Product page:** https://checkout.sietefoods.com/products/queso-kettle-cooked-potato-chips-6-bags
- **Assessment ID:** pta_576c993e9cbd422cbe084e246f16d489
- **Assessed:** 2026-10-14
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Not final · review pending  
  ⚠️ At least one claim here is **preliminary** — a person is still reviewing it; see the per-claim status.
- **Methodology version:** 2026.09.1
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_576c993e9cbd422cbe084e246f16d489

## Overall (safe to quote)

Kettle Cooked Queso Potato Chips by Siete Foods — public trust assessment of 4 observed badge claim(s): Vegan: Limited Public Support; Non-GMO: Certification Match Found; Gluten-Free: Certification Match Found; Allergen-Free: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Gluten-Free

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 78/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “P65Warnings.ca.gov/food . GRAIN FREE DAIRY FREE NON GMO GLUTEN FREE SOY FREE VEGAN ingredients Potatoes, Avocado Oil,”
- **Certifier named:** GFCO
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Gluten-Free claim and a public certification record from GFCO appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 2 independent organisations published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. GFCO's standard: Stricter than the FDA's own <20 ppm labeling rule.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-10
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured GFCO match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Allergen-Free

- **Status:** Preliminary — a person is still reviewing this (`preliminary`)
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Claims free of: dairy free”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays an allergen-free claim, specifically "Claims free of: dairy free," and public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, and product-level, with one independent organisation publishing evidence relevant to this claim that is specific to this exact product. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment, and "allergen-free" has no single regulatory definition in the US, so claims must be scoped to specific allergens. This claim can legally be self-declared in the US, with no required independent testing.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-13
- **Limitation:** This is a claim about specific allergens (dairy-free), not a blanket allergen-free claim — it says nothing about allergens it does not name.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 8 checks.

### Vegan

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 25/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “GRAIN FREE DAIRY FREE NON GMO GLUTEN FREE SOY FREE VEGAN ingredients Potatoes, Avocado Oil, Nutritional Yeast”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Vegan claim, and public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, and product-level, with batch-specific public evidence not retrieved in this assessment. The product page's description mentions cheese, which was not found in the ingredient list itself and is worth confirming against the actual ingredient label. This claim can legally be self-declared in the US, with no required independent testing.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-13
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

### Non-GMO

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 79/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “. GRAIN FREE DAIRY FREE NON GMO GLUTEN FREE SOY FREE VEGAN ingredients Potatoes, Avocado”
- **Certifier named:** Non-GMO Project
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Non-GMO claim and a public certification record from Non-GMO Project appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. Non-GMO Project's standard: The Non-GMO Project sets four different Action Thresholds, not one: 0.9% for goods for human or pet use that are ingested or topically applied (including OTC drugs and homeopathic remedies); 0.25% for seed and vegetative propagation materials; 5% for livestock, poultry, bee, and seafood feed and supplements (may be a quarterly average); and 1.5% for goods that are not ingested or topically applied (e.g. packaging, cleaning supplies, textiles). Requires ongoing lot-level testing of Testable High-Risk major inputs — not a self-declared claim — with documented alternative compliance pathways (affidavits for non-testable inputs, country-of-origin reductions, periodic averaging). Requires annual renewal evaluation of every Verified Product; onsite inspection is required annually where Parallel Processing of the same major High-Risk input occurs, and may be required at the technical administrator's discretion otherwise. Non-GMO is accurate for this product, but none of its listed ingredients (e.g. corn, soy, canola, sugar beet, alfalfa, papaya, eggplant, pineapple, zucchini, potato, or animal-derived inputs such as meat, dairy, or egg) are among the crop types or inputs with a commercially available genetically modified/GMO-fed counterpart in the US — so this claim may not be a meaningful distinction for this specific product.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-29
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Non-GMO Project match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Organic, Fair Trade.

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_Generated 2026-10-14T09:57:11+00:00 from assessment pta_576c993e9cbd422cbe084e246f16d489._