Green bean chips are an easy swap for standard potato chips since they can easily be purchased at most grocery stores. You can also make green bean chips from scratch by baking them in the oven or using an air fryer. These chips offer the health benefits of antioxidants, potassium and calcium.
Raw vegetables like carrots, cucumbers, and bell peppers are a much healthier alternative to chips, specifically if you want to replace tortilla chips! Sliced raw vegetables still have that nice crunch that regular chips do, but contain virtually zero grams of fat.
Chips are fine to eat when consumed in moderation, but watch out for high sodium content and trans fats. Note serving sizes before digging into a bag of chips. Kale chips and popcorn are great alternatives to make at home. Crunchy fruit, vegetables, and nuts are other chip alternatives.
A whole grain, veggie, or bean should be listed as the first ingredient. Look at the Nutrition Facts: Look for less than 140 milligrams of sodium per serving and more than one gram of Dietary Fiber for every 10 grams of Total Carbohydrate. Avoid added sugars.
Avocado is a rich source of healthy fats. Choose wholemeal,multigrain or rye bread as these are higher in fibre with a lower GI than other breads like Turkish. Choose low fat dips such as cottage cheese, hummus, tomato salsa, and tzatziki.
Go thicker: The thicker the chip, the smaller the surface area to volume ratio. That means less of the heavily fried outer coating, which in turn means fat and calorie content is reduced. Go sweet. Sweet potatoes are known to have a number of health benefits over their more common rivals.
Fritos chili cheese flavored chips encapsulate the worst health risks out of the entire line of snacks, with a walloping 11 grams of fat and over a tenth of one's salt intake per snack bag. If you want to avoid an overabundance of sodium and fat for the day, steer clear of this nutritional nightmare.
Both chips have little to offer when it comes to protein and fiber—so that's a draw. But fats make things interesting: While tortilla chips have less saturated fat than potato chips, they also have almost 10 times the trans fat.
Will I lose weight if I stop eating chips everyday?
Processed foods contain a LOT of extra and empty calories that don't do you any good. So once you start cutting back on these foods, you'll naturally lose weight.
If you can just limit yourself to a small, snack-size bag of chips every once in a while (and not eat a full-size bag daily), then you'll be just fine. All about moderation, after all!
