Lays Chips Vs Banana Chips – What About Salt?

vassovass
vassovass Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I had banana chips yesterday and noticed the calories were higher than Lays which surprised me, but my question here is why is there no salt in this - tasted very salty and was wondering if celery salt or something was used instead?
I wrote more detail here on my first MFP blog "Lays Chips vs Banana Chips – Lowest calorie winner is surprising!"
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,427 Member
    edited October 2017
    Given that salt is the third and fifth ingredient, I'd say whoever has put it in the database has put it in wrong:

    Ingredients :
    Banana, Edible Vegetable Oil, Salt, Black Pepper & Black Salt May Contain Peanut, Tree nuts, Sesame Seed & Gluten

    When an item is added by a user (and most of them are) they quite often leave out things that don't specifically matter to them. Here's another entry for those banana chips which says 0 sodium when clearly, they have added salt.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/176606365

    Just a lesson to not trust the database too much.
  • vassovass
    vassovass Posts: 6 Member
    edited October 2017
    redid this
  • vassovass
    vassovass Posts: 6 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Given that salt is the third and fifth ingredient, I'd say whoever has put it in the database has put it in wrong:

    Ingredients :
    Banana, Edible Vegetable Oil, Salt, Black Pepper & Black Salt May Contain Peanut, Tree nuts, Sesame Seed & Gluten

    When an item is added by a user (and most of them are) they quite often leave out things that don't specifically matter to them. Here's another entry for those banana chips which says 0 sodium when clearly, they have added salt.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/176606365

    Just a lesson to not trust the database too much.

    Agreed, strange to get it from 2 different sources e.g. Nutritiondata.self.com/bananachips , but maybe they got info from MFP or vice versa. It was also surprising regarding Calories being higher than Lays!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,427 Member
    vassovass wrote: »
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Given that salt is the third and fifth ingredient, I'd say whoever has put it in the database has put it in wrong:

    Ingredients :
    Banana, Edible Vegetable Oil, Salt, Black Pepper & Black Salt May Contain Peanut, Tree nuts, Sesame Seed & Gluten

    When an item is added by a user (and most of them are) they quite often leave out things that don't specifically matter to them. Here's another entry for those banana chips which says 0 sodium when clearly, they have added salt.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/176606365

    Just a lesson to not trust the database too much.

    Agreed, strange to get it from 2 different sources e.g. Nutritiondata.self.com/bananachips , but maybe they got info from MFP or vice versa. It was also surprising regarding Calories being higher than Lays!

    That doesn't surprise me, pound for pound, bananas are slightly higher calorie than potato.

    Also potatoes are far more dense, so less shrinkage during cooking and less oil absorbed.

  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    To me, banana chips are sweet, sold with dried fruit, and not made with salt. So... Like the nutrition data info, and nothing like your black pepper banana chips.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,427 Member
    theabsentmindednurse wrote: »
    OMG No.
    The Banana chips are deep fried in trans fats and coated in chemicals.
    You are better off with a small serve of Lays!!!

    Ingredients: Banana, Edible Vegetable Oil, Salt, Black Pepper & Black Salt May Contain Peanut, Tree nuts, Sesame Seed & Gluten

    Where?
  • theabsentmindednurse
    theabsentmindednurse Posts: 404 Member
    http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/banana-chips-healthy-3697.html
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,647 Member
    theabsentmindednurse wrote: »
    http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/banana-chips-healthy-3697.html

    Maybe I'm an idiot (maybe) but I don't feel like some blogger can make one statement to cover every single brand of banana chips and every manufacturing method.
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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    theabsentmindednurse wrote: »
    http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/banana-chips-healthy-3697.html

    Maybe I'm an idiot (maybe) but I don't feel like some blogger can make one statement to cover every single brand of banana chips and every manufacturing method.

    Yep.

    In fact, there are banana chips (Bare is one brand) with just bananas as the ingredient. Still pretty high cal compared to just having fruit (dried fruit is often calorie dense for how easy it is to eat a lot of -- I love dried apricots, so can vouch for that), but thinking some blog can explain the ingredients in all of them and then using that vs. the ingredients on the package makes no sense to me. This is how people get the crazy idea that skim milk has added sugar too, I suppose.
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