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Crispy Delites Red Onion Chips

By: Ellen | Aug 20, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Crispy Delites Carrot Chips - they're salty, crunchy, and even somewhat sweet, all at the same time. I also love the idea of a pound of veggies in a single bag of crunchy snacks. I had yet to try the Red Onion flavor - to be honest, it kind of scared me as I'm not the biggest fan of onions - but I was curious, so it was the next flavor I purchased.

The chips looked oddly like those big shrimp chips some Asian restaurants serve and I was pleased to see that the bag was pretty darn full. I picked up one of the pieces and popped it into my mouth. As I chewed the crispy, salty chip, I realized I had been missing out on a whole lot by letting my fears get the better of me - these were great. They didn't taste too strongly of onion; instead, they were a bit sweeter and much more palatable than fresh red onions, and the saltiness and canola oil flavors were spot-on (the only ingredients are red onion, canola oil, and sea salt).

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Crispy Delites Mixed Veggie Chips

By: Ellen | Aug 20, 2009

I've never been a big potato chip fan, but I do enjoy this crispy snack once in a while. Lately, I've been getting into veggie chips - there are so many interesting flavors like Terra Exotic Vegetable Chips and Danielle Spicy Carrot Crispy Veggie Chips. It's important to read labels, though, because some veggie chips pack as many calories and fat as regular potato chips. As Consumer Reports put in, sometimes veggie chips are no more than potato or corn flour and a little veggie powder or puree, offering no more fiber or vitamins than regular potato chips.

Not so with Crispy Delites, which are 100% natural veggie chips. These chips are baked not fried and the company boasts that they pack a pound of fresh veggies in each bag. A pound of veggies?? At only $1.39 per bag, I picked up the Mixed Veggies flavor to snack on. There are 6 vegetables in each bag. The ingredients are: Carrot, stringbean, apple, taro, celery, red onion, pumpkin, canola oil, sea salt.

Oh they are so delicious. The carrot and sweet potato chips were my favorites, as they were thick, crunchy, and the most chip-like. The string bean and celery were a bit strange at first but grew on me. The salt and canola oil add a lot of flavor for minimal nutritional damage.

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Takaokaya Hatsuzumi Teriyaki Nori (Seasoned Sea Vegetable Strips)

By: Jessica | Aug 19, 2009

The name is a mouthful, as are many names of the treasures you can find in your local Asian grocery store. While on the prowl for shirataki noodles in a local supermarket, I ran into this lovely treat: a jar full of Teriyaki flavored Seasoned Sea Vegetable Strips. They are a form of nori, like the seaweed used for sushi, but instead they're cut into individual strips and seasoned and ready-made to enjoy as a snack in its own right. If you like the seaweed flavor, you will probably like these. It was lightly spiced, so the seaweed flavor was predominant, with a mild yet flavorful kick of teriyaki. It is enjoyable on it's own (though very dry), or it can be used as a garnish in soups, salads, or other recipes.

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Snyder's of Hanover Eat Smart Veggie Crisps

By: Ellen | Jun 20, 2009

I came across the reviews for Jensen's Orchard All Natural Chips here on Iateapie.net, and I couldn't help but think they looked a lot like the Snyder's Eat Smart Veggie Crisps I had just bought for $3.99. Snyder's says their EatSmart Veggie Crisps, "blend the garden fresh goodness of real potatoes, tomatoes and spinach so you can savor their natural vegetable flavors."

I tore into my bag of Snyder's and really enjoyed their crispy goodness. The different colored chips taste different from one another, but they all taste delicious. They're thicker and not as greasy as regular potato chips, but they have a satisfyingly savory taste nonetheless.

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Crispy Delites Natural Veggie Carrot Chips

By: Ellen | May 16, 2009

Although I liked Danielle Spicy Carrot Veggie Chips, there were certain things I didn't like about them - namely, the price and the amount of saturated fat that prevent me from buying it regularly. Still, given how tasty (and interesting) these chips were, I decided not to give up on finding a healthier carrot chip. I stumbled on Crispy Delites Natural Veggie Carrot Chips, a bag of which cost $1.50 (instead of $3.29 for Danielle's Carrot Chips).

Carrot chips are definitely one of my new favorite foods. They're naturally sweet, but balanced nicely with a bit of salt and oil. I'm glad I found a healthier version, with less fat but the same amount of taste. Yay Crispy Delites.

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Danielle Spicy Carrot Crispy Veggie Chips

By: Ellen | Nov 30, 2008

I've been on a dried foods kick recently, so I was intrigued when I spotted Danielle Crispy Veggie Chips on the shelf of my local grocery store. These all natural snack chips come in a wide variety of exotic sounding flavors including Tangy Pineapple, Sweet Jackfruit, Honey Banana, Crunchy Pumpkin, Wild Taro, and Spicy Carrot which is the flavor up for review. Although a 2-oz. bag was $3.29 (pretty steep) I decided to give it a shot.

Upon opening the bag, I was struck by the vibrant hue of the carrots and the spicy yet sweet smell. The chips were substantial, and each was packed with a satisfying crunch. For a snack with only four ingredients - fresh carrots, palm oil, chili, and salt - these little veggie wonders are intensely flavorful.

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Jensen's Orchard All Natural Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | Mar 7, 2008

There are many alternatives to thin, oily greasy potato chips, and we have a few favorites here at Iateapie.net, like Roberts American Gourmet Tings, OCocos Chocolate Crisps and Solea Sea Salt Polenta Corn Chips. But still, we keep looking for that perfect chip that has little or no calories (impossible I know). I spotted Jensen's Orchard All Natural Chips in the store - you can't miss the bright green colors, pictures of tomatoes and green chips on the packaging - and since this implied (in my mind) that these chips were health-ier, I decided to give it a try.

You would think that chips made with real tomatoes, spinach and potatoes, might not taste great, but put those doubts aside because these are awesome. They are thicker than regular chips, crunchy and delicious - a great alternative to regular chips. They are not very salty, but it takes about a nano-second to get used to that. The bag says that these are dipping chips, but I munched on these sans any other accompaniments, and it was tasty all on it's own.

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Garden Harvest Toasted Chips

By: Caroline Yoder | Jan 27, 2008

Recently, there has been a discussion on the food forum about "simple substitutions." When you're watching your weight, it's important to allow yourself healthful versions of the foods you love in order to avoid feeling deprived. Baked chips, for example, are more healthful alternative to the real deal. Nabisco recently released a new chip alternative with their Garden Harvest line. These toasted chips boast 60% less fat than your standard Lays or Ruffles. The Nabisco website recently offered free samples of these snack aisle newbies, so I decided to give them a try.

I received two individual servings in the mail, Tomato-Basil and Banana chips. Both varieties were quite tasty, yet neither seemed remotely like a potato chip. First of all, I don't recall ever tasting a tomato-ey or banana-ish potato chip. Secondly, the texture was decidedly more cracker-like. Aside from their dissimilarity to chips, these snacks were quite tasty. When I was eating the tomato-basil variety, I felt like I was eating tiny, crispy little pizzas.

The banana flavor was slightly off-putting due to its sweetness. I am accustomed to thinking of chips and crackers as strictly savory. Nevertheless, they were delicious; I can picture crumbling these "chips" into a container of yogurt or non-fat pudding. Garden Harvest chips also come in Vegetable Medley and Apple Cinnamon flavors.

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Wheat Thins Veggie Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | Mar 16, 2006

There's a new "Wheat Thins" product in town - and that's Wheat Thins Chips! I chose to try the "Veggie" Chips but they also have a whole grain version too, which, unfortunately, has not had favorable review from Phoood and Teresa from News you can Eat . I think the term Veggie Chips might be misleading to some. The veggie probably refers to the spice mix that is used to season the chips and not the fact that the chips are made from a vegetable. The chips themselves are actually made from enriched bleached flour. What happened to whole wheat flour? I thought that was where the "wheat" in "Wheat Thins" came from?!

But let's get to the taste. These chips have an intensely SALTY taste! I had to check the sodium content which was 300 mg or 13% of the RDA. Although this is high, considering one serving is about 11 chips, it doesn't seem like it would make these chips taste that salty. BUT, a look at the ingredients revealed the presence of monosodium glutamate (MSG), which does impart a very salty taste to things. With all the people out there who have sworn off MSG, I found it odd that Nabisco/Kraft chose to use this as an ingredient in a new product. I'm not against it really, but I beg you to use less of it. Also, I have to agree with Phoood that the term "chips" here was more of a marketing gimmick because these bore very little resemblance to what most people consider chips. They weren't thin and in my opinion, there really wasn't much difference from a cracker/biscuit.

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Terra Exotic Vegetable Chips

By: Tanya Patrice | Mar 14, 2005

Do not expect the thin, oily potato chips that we all know and love. Instead Terra Exotic Vegetable Chips were thicker, sturdy, colorful, crunchy and very very good. They have a slightly sweet flavor and that's because these chips are made from root vegetables such as sweet potato, taro (what we call dasheen in Jamaica), yuca (also called cassava), batata and parsnip. These root veggies are very popular in the Caribbean and Latin America but I don't think they are well known to most Americans, but I assure you that this combination is a winning recipe. They also use beet juice to color some of the chips, so you get an interesting visual appeal along with the 'exotic' taste, which makes them great for serving at get-togethers.

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