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Food Should Taste Good MultiGrain Tortilla Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | May 23, 2007

After just getting through reviewing Tostitos MultiGrain Tortilla Chips, I turned my attention to Food Should Taste Good MultiGrain Tortilla Chips. Would there be a difference? Was this just an excuse for me to eat more tortilla chips? Well it turns out that it was a good thing that I tried out "Food Should Taste Good" because these multi grain chips make Tostitos seem like they are barely trying. This is what a multi grain tortilla chips should really taste like.

You can actually taste the grain (or seeds) in each chip (unlike Tostitos). These chips aren't very salty but instead there is a slightly sweet flavor. A look at the ingredients list of 'Food Should Taste Good' reveals that they does not include only whole grain flour like Tostitos, but actually has flax seeds, oat fiber, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and quinoa - real grains! I gave Tostitos 4 kisses but Food Should Taste Good deserves a hot 5!

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Tostitos MultiGrain Tortilla Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | May 22, 2007

Tortilla chips and salsa are my guilty pleasure. Oh how I hate you tortilla chips for making me like you so much - damn you! It's not that they are inherently bad, it's just that I can't resist eating a lot at once. But wait, MultiGrain you say. Healthier perhaps? Of course not, but it's nice to know that there might be some nutrition while I try to kick this hold that Tostitos has over me.

Let's start with the nutrition for a change, because the use of the term 'multigrain' implies that these Tortilla chips might somehow be healthier than the regular ones. Unfortunately (for me), MultiGrain Tostitos are no different from regular Tostitos chips in terms of the nutritional value. Actually, it's 10 calories more at 150 calories for 1 ounce (8 chips) compared to 140 calories for an ounce of Tostitos Restaurant style. Both chips list corn as the first and major ingredient, but the difference is that the MultiGrain chips also has whole oat flour, whole buckwheat flour and whole wheat flour listed as ingredients.

There is also 8 grams of fat (12% of the recommended daily allowance), 1 gram of saturated fat (6%), 6% of the RDA for sodium (135 mg), 2 grams of protein and 18 grams of total carbohydrate, which includes 2 grams of fiber (7% of the RDA).

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Garden of Eatin Blue Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | Jul 31, 2005

Garden of Eatin' produces chips made from organically grown blue corn from farms that use no pesticides or fertilizers - and all their products are Kosher certified. My first time trying these I was very skeptical - I mean blue?! I did not like it at all the first time I tried it, mostly because I am use to chips that are more salty, but I really grew to appreciate these chips. The texture is more sturdy i.e. harder than some of the more well known tortilla chips, and as I mentioned before, these chips don't taste like they have much salt - in fact, there is about half as much sodium as in regular tortilla chips, 60 milligrams per serving as compared with 120 mg (although 120 mg is not a lot either - considering the recommended daily amount for sodium is 2400 mg).

Other than the sodium content, GOE blue chips and Tostitos chips have almost identical nutrition labels. They both contribute 140 calories per serving (1 oz or about 11 - 15 chips) and 7 grams of total fat (12% of the RDA), with 0.5 grams saturated fat from blue chips, but 1 gram from Tostitos.

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Garden of Eatin All Natural Tortilla Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | Dec 14, 2004

I tried two flavors, Guacamole and Black Beans. They were both good but believe it or not (I sure didn't) the black bean was much better than the guacamole flavor. The true test really is, would I buy it again? I wouldn't buy the guacamole flavor again, but I would definitely buy the black bean one again.

The guacamole flavor did not have a hint of guacamole taste (and surprise surprise, no guacamole in the ingredients either) - but the flavor was still good. The chips were sort of dusted with a spice powder which I think had a lemon juice powder base with a hint of a few other spices (I can't quite make out what). I didn't really like the whole spice powder thing, it tended to leave my fingers too messy. The black bean was really basically regular tortilla chips with a few black beans flakes thrown in somewhere, probably more for a little variety in how the chips look (like regular chips with some black flecks) than for adding any flavor.

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