Diet Food Reviews

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.

For some reason, the blue chips were only in the vegetarian section in the Kroger that I visited. Hopefully, other stores place them in the regular chips section, because a lot of people do not go down the vegetarian section, and these chips are good for the eatin'. One bag (9 ounces) is a little more expensive than a few of the other tortilla chips, at about $3.50 per bag. But they are available online at the Garden of Eatin' Store for $5.98 for a pack fo 2.

I have bought this on many occasions, so I can recommend these, not as a way to save calories, but it is a more naturally made product than a lot of the other stuff out there.

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