Plantain Chips!!!!

Channing
Channing Posts: 617 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Just wanted to share with you the pure brilliance of my new obsession with plantain chips! :love:

I am a chip addict, it's my number one weakness and I could probably eat them all day every day!
These plantain chips taste exactly like a potato chip, seriously. Plus are pretty darn healthy!
One serving is an ounce which is about 20 chips! ( these are from Trader Joe's)

Calories 140 Calories from Fat 60

Total Fat 6g
Saturated Fat 2.5g
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 50mg
Potassium 220mg
Total Carbohydrate 20g
Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 0g
Protein 1g

Plus I've been trying to eat clean(er) and the ingredients on these are: plantains, palm oil, salt :bigsmile:

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  • ktrichards87
    ktrichards87 Posts: 67
    Oh those do sound yummy! I'm at the point though where I just need to eat foods that aren't trigger foods right now, because if not this will just make me fall off the bandwagon.
  • Valtishia
    Valtishia Posts: 811 Member
    Have you ever tried fresh plantain on the bbq? YUMMMMMM!!!
  • cediyam
    cediyam Posts: 181 Member
    I love plantain chips too! Are you sure it has no sugar? Cos I know plantains have sugar in them. Natural ones of course.
  • blakgarnet
    blakgarnet Posts: 343
    sounds so good. I wish I lived near a TJ's, but I've recently moved to the boonies - no TJ, no whole foods, only walmart and P&C. I will have to stock up the next time I'm in a major city.

    I wonder if I could make some at home though....
  • Channing
    Channing Posts: 617 Member
    I love plantain chips too! Are you sure it has no sugar? Cos I know plantains have sugar in them. Natural ones of course.

    I actually wondered the same thing myself, so I did some research online and everything said no sugar in the chips, only in the plantain fruit itself. :huh: I'll take it!
  • July24Lioness
    July24Lioness Posts: 2,399 Member
    I love plantain chips too! Are you sure it has no sugar? Cos I know plantains have sugar in them. Natural ones of course.

    I actually wondered the same thing myself, so I did some research online and everything said no sugar in the chips, only in the plantain fruit itself. :huh: I'll take it!

    Well something is deceiving in the packaging then, because plaintains do have natural sugars and frying them is going to intensify them, essentially making them higher in sugar due to the cooking process............

    If the sugars say 0, something is deceiving because they have to count the natural sugars in the plantain itself. It is not possible for plantain to have 0 sugars...................

    The glycemic index on plantains are the same as white sugar (table sugar) which is a 70 and is HIGH.............not much different from eating a potato.
  • mskellyw
    mskellyw Posts: 111
    I love, love, love these too! I can't eat gluten so I use them like crackers. In fact I'm eating some right now with cheese!

    As far as the sugar issue goes, there are several ways that plantains are eaten--green, yellow and black. When yellow or black they are very sweet. When still green they are more starchy, like a potato. Like with bananas, the complex starches break down into simple sugars as they ripen. Since they aren't at all sweet, I'm pretty positive that plantain chips are made from green plantains. Add that to the fact that a medium plantain is close to 200g and only contains 8g of sugar and you can see why such a small serving of plantain chips (28g) doesn't contain a measurable amount of sugar.
  • July24Lioness
    July24Lioness Posts: 2,399 Member
    From what I found there is about 10 grams of sugar in a medium plantain................
    One medium plantain, which is the common serving of the fruit, contains 220 calories, which is roughly the same as a banana of the same size, if not slightly less. It also contains 57 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of sugar, which is significantly more than bananas. Certain types of more bland plantains, the ones not used for cooking, may contain less sugar than a common banana.

    I love, love, love these too! I can't eat gluten so I use them like crackers. In fact I'm eating some right now with cheese!

    As far as the sugar issue goes, there are several ways that plantains are eaten--green, yellow and black. When yellow or black they are very sweet. When still green they are more starchy, like a potato. Like with bananas, the complex starches break down into simple sugars as they ripen. Since they aren't at all sweet, I'm pretty positive that plantain chips are made from green plantains. Add that to the fact that even a ripe plantain has only 8 grams of sugar in the whole fruit and you can see why such a small serving of plantain chips doesn't contain a measurable amount of sugar.
  • mskellyw
    mskellyw Posts: 111
    From what I found there is about 10 grams of sugar in a medium plantain................

    One medium plantain, which is the common serving of the fruit, contains 220 calories, which is roughly the same as a banana of the same size, if not slightly less. It also contains 57 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of sugar, which is significantly more than bananas. Certain types of more bland plantains, the ones not used for cooking, may contain less sugar than a common banana.


    Well the amount of sugar will surely vary depending on the size of the fruit. But I think you can still follow my logic...
  • July24Lioness
    July24Lioness Posts: 2,399 Member
    In a way, yes I follow the logic, but that is why I don't purchase any processed or already cooked foods, even from stores like Trader Joe's.

    American labelling (FDA, USDA, etc) allows them to LIE to people saying it has 0 grams of sugar, when in fact it does not............

    And since the ingredients indicate Palm Oil, they are the fried variety that increases the sugar grams, so there should be at least 1-2 grams of sugar listed in the nutritional information. So, the packaging is very, very misleading.

    That is all I was saying. :flowerforyou:
    From what I found there is about 10 grams of sugar in a medium plantain................

    One medium plantain, which is the common serving of the fruit, contains 220 calories, which is roughly the same as a banana of the same size, if not slightly less. It also contains 57 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of sugar, which is significantly more than bananas. Certain types of more bland plantains, the ones not used for cooking, may contain less sugar than a common banana.


    Well the amount of sugar will surely vary depending on the size of the fruit. But I think you can still follow my logic...
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