Healthy alternative to chips
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Stuff like potato chips, doritos, cheetos, fritos, takis, popcorn, and all that stuff is really convinient to snack on but none of them are healthy. Is there something crunchy that tastes good that is healthy to snack on sometimes?
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Ray sometimes recommended tortilla chips fried in coconut oil as a good salty snack. There's a few companies that offer them, I like Gilly Loco but there's also Masa Chips and a few others. They are also pretty easy and cheap to make yourself too. Just slice some corn tortillas with good ingredients (corn, lime/calcium hydroxide, and salt) into tortilla chips and fry them in a pan with coconut oil until crispy. Add salt (or other seasonings if you like).
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Sure you want sth less toxic.
Most fried snacks are made with sunflower oil, supposed to be healthy for most people but we know here it’s not, because rich in PUFA (85 % W6 most of the time).
As chips are made of potatoes, rich in starch, when these chips are baked, usually at more than 120 - 130° C (248 - 266° F), the asparagine from potato become acrylamide. Of course, you’ll find “studies” with the opposite mention (nothing proved). So far, studies in people haven’t found a clear link.
So make a search with: acrylamide and cancer. And “Maillard reaction”. By the way, if you add some lemon juice or apple vinegar in a cake, you won’t get so much reaction.
NB1: Fried potatoes have the most acrylamide. Roasted have less, and baked are even lower.
Stored potatoes contain more asparagine than the young potato. Avoid green peel.
NB2: I still eat chips but not on a usual way. Thicker fries / chips has less surface area, so less problematic.
Health Concerns:
Acrylamide is considered a "probable human carcinogen" by the IARC and "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" by the NTP. -
@Isaac Wasa crackers are good for fiber. Bugles are fried in coconut and palm kernel oil. A lot of groceries sell coconut rolls that are just rice flour and coconut.
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@Isaac said in Healthy alternative to chips:
Stuff like potato chips, doritos, cheetos, fritos, takis, popcorn, and all that stuff is really convinient to snack on but none of them are healthy. Is there something crunchy that tastes good that is healthy to snack on sometimes?
Some ideas…
Baked cheese crisps:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/whisps-cheese-crisps-parmesan-2-12-oz-60-g/101975
https://www.iherb.com/pr/whisps-cheese-crisps-asiago-pepper-jack-2-12-oz-60-g/105044
https://www.iherb.com/pr/whisps-cheese-crisps-cheddar-2-12-oz-60-g/101976
Pork rinds:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/epic-bar-pork-rinds-sea-salt-pepper-2-5-oz-70-g/75703
https://www.iherb.com/pr/epic-bar-pork-rinds-bbq-seasoning-2-5-oz-70-g/75701
https://www.iherb.com/pr/pork-king-good-flavored-chicharrones-salted-butter-1-75-oz-49-5-g/105247
https://www.iherb.com/pr/pork-king-good-flavored-chicharrones-onion-sour-cream-1-75-oz-49-5-g/127711
Potato crisps:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/the-good-crisp-company-potato-crisps-classic-original-5-6-oz-160-g/110156
https://www.iherb.com/pr/the-good-crisp-company-potato-crisps-sour-cream-onion-5-6-oz-160-g/110159
https://www.iherb.com/pr/the-good-crisp-company-potato-crisps-outback-bbq-5-6-oz-160-g/110160
Popcorn popped in coconut oil:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/lesserevil-popcorn-himalayan-pink-salt-4-6-oz-130-g/143872
Freeze-dried fruit:
https://www.iherb.com/pr/natierra-organic-freeze-dried-mangos-1-5-oz-43-g/50091
https://www.iherb.com/pr/natierra-organic-freeze-dried-bananas-2-5-oz-71-g/50092
https://www.iherb.com/pr/natierra-organic-freeze-dried-apples-1-5-oz-43-g/50094
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thanks guys
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These are pretty tasty. Fried in Coconut Oil! Only available in Canada it seems.
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@Isaac Torres potato chips fried in olive oil are tasty if you’re a billionaire. The other brands fried in olive oil are no where as good. Even the Torres brand is not always worth splurging on because it seems suppliers/amazon hoard them and don’t store them ideally so the taste is effected negatively even tho technically they’re not “expired “
I haven’t tried jose andres’ chips which seem to be the only high end competitor to Torres. It might be worth trying if you have money to throw away. I think Whole Foods had them last time I noticed.Tho as a peater I don’t advocate common pufa fried chips like tortillas, lays, utz, etc, one thing to do if you’re tempted like me is buy em along with a pack of medium size brown paper bags or lunch bags. Then when you get home transfer the chips into the paper bags. When it comes time to eat em, a good amount of the pufa will have been absorbed by the paper bags.
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@Isaac What about sliced crunchy cucumbers? They are pretty clean.
