A Healthier Snack Option?? || Tortilla Chips

Do you often find yourself munching into potato chips while binge watching your favourite show? Do you know there's a healthier option of chips aka Tortilla Chips? Keep watching!

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Chips are convenient comfort snacks that can be bought from virtually any grocery store. You can see various genres of chips with potato chips being the most sought after. One of the more popular alternatives to potato chips, however, will have to tortilla chips, which sometimes can take up as much shelf space as potato chips in the store. So how exactly are tortilla chips made and are they a healthier alternative?

Tortilla chips are made of corn dough called masa where it is pressed into thin sheets and cut into triangular shapes. They are then deep fried in vegetable oil before seasoning powder is added to the chips.

So are tortilla chips healthier than potato chips? Let’s find out by going through some of their nutrition facts.

In terms of calories, potato chips tend to be a little more calorie dense than tortilla chips where 100 grams of potato chips has 536 Cals as compared to the slightly lesser 465 calories from tortilla chips.

One point to tortilla chips here.

Instead of comparing the total amount of fats, I would like to zoom in to focus just on the trans fat content for these 2 snacks. Just to note, any form of trans fat in your food is detrimental to health in the long run, as they are the main culprits in raising bad cholesterol and ultimately cardiovascular disease. There are trace amounts in both potato and tortilla chips with 0.2 grams per bag of tortillas compared to 0.1 grams per bag in potato chips.

Since there should not be any trans fat in the food you consume, I would put this at a tie, zero pints for both.

Next will be vitamins and minerals. To be honest, I would not be recommending these snacks to be your source of nutrients, similar to all junk foods, unfortunately both bags of chips contain almost zero vitamins and minerals as they are just mainly simple carbohydrates. So this will be zero points for both again.

Last but not least, will be how salty they are. Just to put into context, the recommended daily sodium intake is set at 2300 mg. per 100 grams of tortilla chips has about 305 mg while the mr potato has about 480 grams. The lower the sodium content the better, that makes tortilla edge out in this aspect. One point for team tortilla.

So there we have have it, even though tortilla seem to be a healthier option, I would not binge eat as it is still considered a junk food. If you were to scrutinise at the nutrition figures I just mentioned, Tortilla chips are actually quite the same as potato chips in terms of their nutrition content. Typically, for tortilla chips, people might tend to consume with dipping sauce, which will increase the overall calories and sodium content.

When choosing your next pack of tortilla chips, check the nutrition facts and pick the ones with the lowest calories, sodium and trans-fats content. Always consume in moderation!

00:00 Intro
01:01 Process of making Tortilla Chips
01:17 Are Tortilla chips healthier than Potato chips?
01:56 Trans-fat content in the chips
02:40 Vitamins & Minerals in the chips
03:06 Salt content in the chips
03:39 Tips on consuming Tortilla chips

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