Experts say vegetable crisps can be more unhealthy
Everybody gets hit with snack cravings. But when you fancy something naughty, are a packet of vegetable crisps actually a healthy alternative?
According to nutritionists, that’s not the case. Seemingly healthy vegetable crisps can contain more fat and more saturated fat than popular branded crisps.
For example, a 40g packet of Tyrrells Mixed Root Vegetable Crisps contain 14.3g of fat. In comparison, a 40g bag of Walkers Quavers contains 12.3g of fat and a 51g Mars Bar is only 8.6g of fat. WHAT?!
Registered nutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed has explored what supposedly healthy food alternatives actually contain.
She explains: “The concern with products that are often seen as ‘healthier alternatives’ such as vegetable crisps, is they don’t always match up to their reputations. Crisps are crisps, and even if they are made with vegetables, they are likely to contain too much in the way of fat, saturated fat and salt. In fact, the vegetable crisps here have higher levels of saturated fat and salt than some well-known, regular crisp brands.
“As a nutritionist, I’ve seen this first hand in weight loss clinics where clients may eat even as much as double a portion size of a product if it’s perceived to be healthy.”
So if you fancy a regular pack of crisps you might be best off just having one...
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