Healthy Recipe Doctor: Taste Test Tuesday: Snyder's (Flaxseed Gold) Multigrain Tortilla Strips

If you like to make bean topped nachos, tortilla soup or if you sometimes like to enjoy a handful of chips with your sandwich...you might be in the market for tortilla chips that have more fiber, less fat, and a more healthful choice of oil. Of course having great crunch and flavor is also preferred.

I have found a brand here or there that meet the tortilla chip requirements listed above, at stores like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, but now there is a brand that has hit the more typical supermarket - Snyder's!

Their Multigrain Flaxseed Gold Tortilla Chips have 25% less fat than flavored tortilla chips and canola oil is their oil of choice. The chips contain 11 ingredients - 6 of which count as whole grains or seeds - contributing to each 1-ounce serving having 2 grams of fiber. While I'm thrilled to see flaxseed in this multigrain snack, by the looks of it they use the whole flax seed. In order for your body to reap the full benefits of flax, it needs to be ground.

From first to last here are the ingredients: whole corn masa, corn masa, canola oil, rice flour, sesame seeds, cane sugar, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, whole quinoa, salt and oat fiber.
Each 1-ounce serving contains:

140 calories
6 grams fat
.5 grams saturated fat
0 gram trans
18 g carbohydrate
2 g fiber
230 mg sodium

Would I buy these chips again? Yes I would, but I'm hoping somehow the company gets the ground flaxseed memo and switches to using crushed or ground flaxseed instead. Then these chips should have a nice supply of plant omega-3s per serving (from the canola oil and the ground flaxseed).

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