Name: US vs China Lay's | Food Wars | Insider Food
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T07:19:15.000Z
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From calorie counts to portion sizes, we wanted to find out all the differences between Lay's in the U.S. and in China.

In China, Lay's chips come in 14, that's right, 14 sizes.

Coming in at our smallest chip bag, 12 grams, 23, 40, there's a 45, but we couldn't get that, 60, 65, 70, 75 grams, 80, 90, 104, 116, 135, and 220 grams for our largest chip packet.

Down here, the smallest bag is the multi-pack 28 gram bag, the vending machine bag.

Move one up to a 2.625 ounce or 74.4 grams, so specific.

Then in the middle, which I couldn't find, is the 2.75 ounce or 78 gram bag.

In the middle here, I mean, this is the one you see everywhere, the eight ounce or 226 gram bag.

In the middle here, missing, is the family size.

They don't get to see the 10.5 ounce or 297.6 gram bag.

But of course, the size that we always have, Old Reliable, the biggest size, the party size, 368 grams.

That means the biggest bag in the U.S. is 67.3% larger than the biggest bag in China.

It's, no, wait, no, it actually is the size.

In the U.S., our flavored bags weigh less than the original flavored bags.

It weighs 7.75 ounces compared to the eight ounces you get with the original bag.

Back in 2014, PepsiCo claimed, quote, the reason for the slightly higher price per ounce for flavored chips is the added seasoning.

So, Lay's, can you explain to me why this bag of lightly salted chips is 7.75 or 7 3 4ths like the flavored bags and not eight ounces of the regular salted bags where all this has for seasoning is less salt than the original?

A 28-gram bag in the U.S. supposedly contains 15 chips, according to Lay's website.

We don't have a 28-gram bag, so I'll count the number of chips in a 40-gram packet as a comparison.

It's 1.43 times heavier, but is it just as plentiful?

Okay, I'm already incredibly impressed at the number of chips they managed to fit into this bag, but they really could have put more in there, and we all know that Lay's chip bags are mostly filled with air anyway.

It's actually nitrogen gas, which helps preserve the chips and also acts as a cushion to stop them from getting smashed in transit.

But what is the air-to-chip ratio, you ask?

I'm going to take the smallest packet that we have, the 12 grams.

Okay, now we need to find out the volume of the chips. 15.

Our ratio is 0.028 chips to air, which makes it 2.8% chips, and the rest of it is all air.

Incredibly scientifically accurate experiment yields 575 milliliters in the bag.

Let's do five bags, and then we'll just get a bigger number and then divide that by five, because we'll have an average.

You guys have no idea how satisfying this is. 425 divided by five equals 85.

Can someone do that on screen for us, please?

And there's the number we've been trying to get.

Here are all the lace chips from China that you won't find in the US.

And here are most of the lace chips from the US you won't find in China.

All right, let's start with the exclusive flavors for the classic chip style.

Now, these four are the most common flavors that you'll find here on the Chinese market, beginning with Italian red meat.

They were probably going for Bolognese sauce here.

It's not offensive, but you also can't quite place what exactly they were trying to do.

Next, we have the Mexican chicken tomato.

Next, we have the Texas grilled barbecue flavor.

It's sweet, it's refreshing, it has an aftertaste of cucumber.

I want to ask why, but I also kind of, I'm okay with it.

You know, I wonder if these are popular because they're foreign flavors, because we don't know what Italian red meat or Mexican chicken tomato is supposed to taste like, and apparently neither do you guys.

All right, let's move on to our exclusive local flavors.

The spicy crayfish, or as you guys in the US would call them, crawfish.

Oh, it tastes a little bit less crayfish than it smells like crayfish.

Hands down, my all-time favorite street food.

Especially in summer, you'll see people hanging out in the alleys with their tank top rolled up so their belly is exposed.

And then they'll be holding a bunch of these skewers with meat, just ripping them off and slamming back the beers.

Oh, best things about China, it's street food, honestly.

It's not as meaty as I would like, but then look, it's a potato chip, all right?

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