Eat Smart Baked Sweet Potato Crisps

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Apr 23, 2007
4 stars

Eat Smart Baked Sweet Potato Crisps Eat Smart Snacks are made with all-natural and USDA Certified Organic ingredients. The Baked Sweet Potato Crisps are all natural, made with real sweet potatoes and 100% pure canola oil. I interpreted that to mean that I would see sweet potatoes in the ingredients somewhere, but alas the ingredients list reads, "potato flakes, potato starch, sweet potato flour, Canola oil, salt" etc. It might have been naive thinking on my part - but I just had to know where were the sweet potatoes, so I sent the company an email and 1 week later - no response.

Well, I still like the idea of "sweet potato" chips so I got to tasting. These chips are more crunchy and harder than regular chips. The lack of a salty flavor took a bit getting used to, but I am a person with a very high sodium intake. Once I got used to the fact that these were close to unsalted chips, I actually liked them. I think I would buy these again - although they are a little expensive - $3.99 for a big 6 ounce bag.

One serving is about 25 chips (28 grams) and has 110 calories, only 1.5 grams of total fat, no saturated or trans fat, 13% of the RDA for sodium (310 mg), 1 gram of protein and 23 grams of total carbohydrates, which includes 1 gram of fiber and 4 grams of sugars.

Not bad at all - 25 chips - 100 calories - I can deal with that! Baked Lays Potato Chips have a serving size that is about half of the Eat Smart Baked Potato Chips (11 chips), but it has the same amount of calories and fats.[read the review], so I would definitely go with the Sweet Potato Chips instead.

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Mon: April 23, 2007
MaryAnne said:

Sweet Potato Chips aren't literally made from "sweet potatos" most times. Technically, they're sweetened white potatos hence the potato flakes and large amount of carbs in the nutritional information. I learned this when I ordered sweet potato soup on our cruise only to receive sweetened soup with white potatos. The chef explained that it often causes a lot of confusion but that's what it is. I'm sure you could find real sweet potato chips (or make your own) which would be so much healthier. As for chips go, I think that the Light Fat Free BBQ Baked Lays and Doritos are much better tasting than the regular baked lays AND they're fat free!

Tue: April 24, 2007
tanya [admin] said:

Thanks MaryAnne for the explanation. I also got a reply from the manufacturers (coincidentally the day after the review was puvlished): "The sweet potatoes are dried and ground into flour. This is done at our ingredient supplier. The flour is then mixed with other ingredients to make the sweet potato crisp."