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Back to School Taste Test Tuesday
"Can we try these mom?...they're baked!" asked my 13 year old daughter holding a bright orange bag of Ruffles Baked Cheddar & Sour Cream Potato Crisps. We never have more than a bag of chips in my pantry and they're usually reduced fat tortilla chips for batches of impromptu nachos. I have nothing against a good chip fix every now and then, they're just not staples in our house.
I've had pretty good luck with the reduced fat chip types over the years but I've got to admit when it comes to the "baked" chip options, the word "baked" appears to be code for "boring." But not true with these new Cheddar & Sour Cream Potato Crisps. Everyone in my family liked them (including my husband). They definitely work regular cheddar & sour cream ruffles, just the texture is different. The baked chips seem thicker and stiffer to bite into. That textural difference didn't bother any of us though.
The first five ingredients are dehydrated potatoes, modified food starch, corn oil, sugar, and maltodextrin. And the nutrition information (per ounce about 10 crisps) =
120 calories
3 grams fat
.5 g saturated fat
0 g trans fat
0 mg cholesterol
220 mg sodium
22 g carbohydrate
2 grams fiber
2 grams protein
Happy chipping!
~Elaine
Related Topics: The Art of Power Snacking, Make Over Your Kitchen
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I've had pretty good luck with the reduced fat chip types over the years but I've got to admit when it comes to the "baked" chip options, the word "baked" appears to be code for "boring." But not true with these new Cheddar & Sour Cream Potato Crisps. Everyone in my family liked them (including my husband). They definitely work regular cheddar & sour cream ruffles, just the texture is different. The baked chips seem thicker and stiffer to bite into. That textural difference didn't bother any of us though.
The first five ingredients are dehydrated potatoes, modified food starch, corn oil, sugar, and maltodextrin. And the nutrition information (per ounce about 10 crisps) =
120 calories
3 grams fat
.5 g saturated fat
0 g trans fat
0 mg cholesterol
220 mg sodium
22 g carbohydrate
2 grams fiber
2 grams protein
Happy chipping!
~Elaine
Related Topics: The Art of Power Snacking, Make Over Your Kitchen
Technorati Tags: ruffles, potatochips, bakedchips, tastetest
38 Comments:
The Baked Lay's Sour Cream and Onion are also very good.
WHAT IS YOUR COMMENT ON LAYS KETTLE CHIPS? ARE THEY GOOD FOR WATCHING GRAMS OF FAT?
They arn't bad, however I suggest the fat free cheese and sour cream lays. They have only 75 calories in a serving. and the servings are not unreasonaly small...like 15 chips, enough to feed that chip craving.
Kettle Brand chips now have baked chips. They are very thin and made from whole potatos not potato flour. They taste just like potatoes should. They have regular and age cheddar.Both yummy.Small package and quite expensive for the amount you get. Might be better for you then fried chips.Less breakdown of oil?
I think the Kettle Bakes chips are the healthiest option yet. They are made with whole potatoes, and come in more flavors than just aged cheddar and regular. My favorite are the honey-barbecue!
Those Fat Free Lay's Potato chips in the light blue bag are EXCELLENT - but not too easy to find in a lot of stores.
Lays Baked chips are great!!!!!!!!!!!! No greasy taste or feeling left in your mouth. Outstandingly TASTY!!!!!
Most of the baked chips actually have meat products in them as opposed to their "fried" counter part. This is an issue for those of us who are vegetarians.
I have it best, for me, to bake up a large batch of corn tortilla chips. Works nicely for the flavored wheat ones as well.
has anyone figured out the cost per pound of this snack food? cost more than a steak and is worthless -just slice a potato, toss in oil and steak seasoning and bake for 30 minutes and at least real food. or how about fruit or veggies and dip. leave the snack aisle alone!
The baked Cheetos are better than the real thing. We can't find them too often, usually at Walmart.
I like Corazonas heart-healthy tortilla chips -- they help to reduce LDL cholesterol and are at Jamba Juice!
Anonymous at 8:24am said, "Most of the baked chips actually have meat products in them as opposed to their "fried" counter part." What ingredients might you be referring to?
I recently discovered that the Baked chips actually have more fat and calories in them then the Light chips do.
Slice potatoes thinly and put them n the microwave until crisp. No fats or oils. They taste better than any bought chip. More of the fresh potato taste. Watch them closely or they will burn.
I was also wondering about the person who wrote about meat products in baked chips. I am a vegetarian and have never had a problem with this, granted I dont eat many chips but yes chips are not vegan friendly because of the dairy, whey, cheese, honey, etc. they are vegetarian friendly unless of course some obvious ingredient is in them, but I do not know of many!
For back to school snacks, our dentist is againts chips, as the starch is super sticky and stays on the teeth longer than sugar! I serve them with a bowl of sliced apples!
You all need to read the labels...they took out the fat & loaded them up with sugars.
Who thinks MEAT is in baked potato chips? Where in the world would someone get this idea? Strange.
As far as the "Light" chips, these are made with Olestra, which can cause major gastrointestinal problems in some people. I would not serve this to my children.
My family loves Baked Cheetos. You can't tell the difference.
For Pennsylvania Dutch people. We are favoring the old fashion fried potato chips. I know because I make a living selling them. Beleive me it's the "QUANITY" that is bad! Easy does it and enjoy.
I read the label for the Baked Lay's Sour Cream and Onion Chips and found that they are make with MSG.
I (as many people) am highly allergic to MSG.
MSG is a psychotropic drug which acts on the brain to make us think the food taste better.
"Dehydrated potatoes, modified food starch, corn oil, sugar, and maltodextrin." THIS ISN'T FOOD. Respect yourself and love yourself enough to put real food in your body.
what about partially hydrogenated soybean oil in baked chips isn't that what is worse
If you read the ingredients carefully, in some of the flavored Lays baked chips (barbeque flavor and cheddar cheese flavor)There are hydrogenated oils! Read your labels!
Anything in excess is to much but come on! Reduced fat this, baked that.... In another 5-10 years they are going to say that there is something unhealthy about the "Baked Chips" as well.
I stick to the real thing,but it is good to know that all of you seem to like the baked chips. I'll give them a try. No one in our family is a junk food junkie anyway.
Forget the fat, what about all the salt in these products. One evil against another.
Cheddar and sourcreme are definitely good.
Much better alternatives to "chips" are:
- sliced carrot sticks
- sliced celery sticks
- sectioned fresh fruit (not juice)
Yes, I know it takes the fun out of "junk" food!
Those cheddar rice cake snacks by Quaker taste better than Cheetos to me! They are so good ... much less fat. I can't live without them.
There is no meat in chips that person was wrong and gave false information. And you can still eat chips and love and respect yourself- DUH! Get over yourself to whoever wrote that, get a life!
No one has mentioned a product called RICE THINS- Baked not Fried .It is sold in supermarkets and is manufactured by Christie Brown, a Division of Kraft Foods.They are delicious,very crispy and Zero Trans Fats. They replace our salted crackers when snacking.
I believe the person who mentioned "meat products" (obviously potato chips do not contain meat) in the chips might actually be referring to the fact that there are chips on the market that are cooked in animal fat. As far as vegetarians are concerned - off limits!!
yes but vegetarians know the difference between meat in products and animal fat, which yes some chips are but not too many if you are not sure about what you are talking about...then don't!
I too are vegetarian,so i'd hope they don't have "meat products" in them...because i love chips!I know a bunch of snacks do have meat-products in them,so i guess you just got to be extra careful of what you have to eat!altough i did hear cheese had cow-stomach juices in it,which is pretty weird to me...so i guess i've been eating that all this time!!
aww those chips suck,they actually quite disgusting,you folk are just tricking yourselves,because they aint got nothin on regular chips.
I'm currently eating a small bag of Lays Kettle Cooked Jalapeno Extra Crunchy Potato Chips.
With 140 Calories per serving, 2g of Poly Fat and 4.5g of Mono Fat I don't really seem to see the problem?
If over half the fat is heart healthy fat (nuts, avocados, etc.) then you should go for it!
@ the commenter talking about MSG:
MSG is NOT a psychotropic drug. monosodium GLUTAMATE is an amino acid. amino acids make up proteins. that's like saying chicken tenders are a psychotropic drug.
MSG does NOT act on the brain directly. because it is an amino acid, it makes your tongue think you are eating lots of protein, which makes your food taste "better". like artificial sweetener, but for savory stuff.
NO to misinformation flooding the internet!
MSG is not a psychotropic drug. That is crazy. It is salt and gluten. Our tongues have receptors that are made to fit nothing but gluten. Theory suggests that this design is related to our need to ingest protien. Read up on it.
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