Forget good old-fashioned potato chips. These days America's kids are munching on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Maybe you’ve noticed kid stuffing their mouths with these fiery, cheesy nuggets. Maybe you’ve seen a teen on the bus with a copy of the Hunger Games in one hand, iPhone in the other, and a big crinkly orange bag in the lap. That bag of Cheetos just might be breakfast.

All of this Cheetos-munching has nutritionists concerned. One bag packs in a whopping amount of fat and salt—”26 grams of fat and a quarter of the amount of salt that’s recommended for the entire day,” according to ABC News. These airy puffs have no nutritional value—zip, zilch, nada. And as you might expect, the salty snacks are like crack and highly addictive—as in once you stick your hand in the bag there’s no turning back.

Schools across the country, from New Mexico to Illinois, are concerned about the number of bags their students are consuming and principals are yanking Flamin’ Hot Cheetos off their menus. A Chicago school district, which once sold 150,00 bags a year, no longer carries the snack. “If children were to bring in snacks that are high in fat, high in calories, that’s their choice,” Rockford School District Interim Superintendent Robert Willis told ABC News “We’re not going to be providing those kinds of foods.”

One California school isn’t even allowing kids to pack in their own Flamin’ Hots. “We don’t allow candy, and we don’t allow Hot Cheetos,” Rita Exposito, principal of Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena, Calif., told the Chicago Tribune. “We don’t encourage other chips, but if we see Hot Cheetos, we confiscate them — sometimes after the child has already eaten most of them. It’s mostly about the lack of nutrition.”

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