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Over Thirty Years of Delicious Snacking

A few bites from the Natural Products Expo – Tortatos

 

Here are some products that caught our eye at Natural Products Expo West before we got too bleary and too bloated from tasting to go on.

Snacks

( Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times )

Given market research showing that more people are replacing lunch with snacks, efforts to up our nutritional snacking game are a plus, which isn’t to say they’re a replacement for broccoli. Look for chips with pea flour, seaweed and other vegetables, not just potatoes or corn. Supereats chips all have kale as the first ingredient. Nud Fud’s green chips are made from bananas, coconut, sesame and spirulina. R.W. Garcia found a tasty combination with Tortatos, a corn and potato combination. Good Boy Organics from the Finger Lakes region of New York had Organicasaurus: baked organic corn snacks in dinosaur shapes. Beanitos brought out puffs in cheddar and hot chili to add to its line of bean chips. Popcorn appeared in many guises, including 100-calorie bags from Skinny Pop and Half Pops kernels.

 

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Innovative RW Garcia Revolutionizes Snack Aisles with One-of-a-kind Tortatos

The idea for Tortatos began with a simple question from a young member of the RW Garcia family: Why isn’t there a tortilla chip that tastes like a potato chip? It was a question that intrigued Robert and Margaret Garcia, founders of the family-owned-and-operated leading maker of artisan corn-based snacks, and now they have provided an answer two years in the making: Tortatos, the first-ever half tortilla, half potato chips, that are on store shelves across the country.

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RW Garcia Develops Half-Corn, Half-Potato Chip

RW Garcia has introduced Tortatos, which blend stone-ground while corn and red potato, combining white corn’s inherent sweetness and red potatoes flavor. The result is a chip that has a crunch of a tortilla chip with the finish of a potato chip. Tortatoes also have 25% less fat than traditional potato chips.

The chips are available in four flavors: Original, Salt & Pepper, Salt & Vinegar, and Barbecue.

Tortatos are all natural, Non-GMO Project verified and certified gluten free, and contain no additives or preservatives.

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-Excerpted from Today’s Dietician

Tortatos are one of 10 snacks that’ll make you MVP of your Super Bowl party

Are you ready for some football? Or better yet, for some snacking? Super Bowl Sunday has indeed become America’s day for pigging out. It’s estimated that the average consumer devours some 2,000 calories worth of snacks during the game (and that’s just during the game—the pre-game buffet is extra).

 

But these days, America’s taste for snack foods has gone beyond the mass-market potato chips and pretzels that crowd store shelves. With that in mind, we sought out 10 of the oddest items to feature on the game-day table, from beer-flavored jelly beans to Sriracha-flavored popcorn. Let the feasting—and the football—begin.

VIDEO: Super Bowl: 5 strange snacks to serve

— By Charles Passy

Excerpted from Market Watch – Wall Street Journal.  See full article here.