Category: Chips

Red hot Doritos: Why to avoid it

Red hot Doritos: Why to avoid it

[ 0 ] May 7, 2014 |

Doritos is a snack made of ground corn, vegetable oil and salt plus flavors and seasoning. In my view, only plain Doritos Toasted Corn is what you can eat without taking risk of being intoxicated. Consider this: Nacho Cheese’s flavor is made by addition of 31 more ingredients to the basic 3 of the Toasted […]

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GMO secrets of corn snacks

GMO secrets of corn snacks

[ 0 ] August 14, 2013 |

Common sources of GMO According to the Wikipedia 80% of Hawaiian papaya, 85% of corn, 91% of soybeans, 95% of sugar beet and 88% of cotton produced in the United States are genetically modified. However potential GMO threat comes not only from the crops (fruits) but also from a numerous food ingredients derived from them. […]

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Dye Diet Calculator: A great addition to calorie counters

Dye Diet Calculator: A great addition to calorie counters

[ 2 ] March 13, 2013 |

Calorie calculation did always seem as a crazy disturbance to me: Instead of enjoying your food and life you are busy with counting every your gulp and bite. There have been myriads calorie counters established for the last 50 years when everyone’s diet was bound to universal 2000 calories a day standard. Some count caloric […]

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Doritos Cool Ranch: 25 ingredients for flavor

Doritos Cool Ranch: 25 ingredients for flavor

[ 3 ] December 31, 2012 |

Recently I have recommended Tostitos Scoops of the Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo, Inc., with no artificial anything and made with only 3 ingredients: corn, vegetable oil and salt. Doritos is a brand of seasoned junk food chips produced since 1964 by the Frito-Lay. Here is another bag of corn chips from the Frito […]

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Tostitos Scoops: Nothing artificial

Tostitos Scoops: Nothing artificial

[ 4 ] December 11, 2012 |

Let me quickly introduce and recommend a “new party look” Tostitos Scoops. This is another version of tortilla chips that comes in scoop-like shapes designed to help you with grabbing more salsa than usual. Scoop salsa well with Tostitos Scoops! There is nothing wrong with that: salsa is a healthy vegetable snack and the Tostitos […]

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Pretzel Twists: A better food choice

Pretzel Twists: A better food choice

[ 0 ] October 16, 2011 |

Here is Great Value Honey Wheat Braided Pretzel Twists for $1.48 a bag you can buy at a local Walmart. No trans fat, no artificial flavors or colors. Accordingly, the pretzels risk diagram looks more like green that means it is safe to eat the product in moderation. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED With every serving of 10 […]

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Potato chips

Potato chips

[ 6 ] April 14, 2011 |

Ruffles, Pringles and Terra chips: Risk and Nutrition Chips belong to a snack food category which is often considered as a junk food because of generally low nutritional value. Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream Health Risk Score, DDRS ~ 94 Health risks of this Frito-Lay, Inc. product come from 5 foreign additives (red segments, 36), […]

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DORITOS Tortilla chips

DORITOS Tortilla chips

[ 11 ] March 2, 2011 |

More food, less food additives! I keep having a feeling that food in the United States is the most saturated with too many chemical additives. Recently, I was quite surprised to find out that Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain cereal bars sold in the US are stuffed with Red 40, Yellow 6 and Blue 1 dyes, whereas the same […]

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