The Unsettling Truth: Are Veggie Straws Junk Food?

Kitchen Journal ^ | 2/25/25 | Robert Ashurst

[DallasBiff]

I know an inane thread, but I picked up a couple of snack sized bags of Veggie Straws for 33 cents a bag(a similar sized bag of Lay's potato chips would cost around $1.50)

Anyway I like Veggie straws, had a bag as a mid afternoon snack, when I was done I noticed that the nutritional information was in spanish. The title was in big english letters.

I know inane but I've noticed some Cheerio's boxes are now in spanish lately.

[Jamestown1630]

I’m sure they’re made with seed oil.

[A Navy Vet]

I am SO sick of "greenies", and trying to say what I should eat.

BTW, the Fedgov changed their "Nutrition Pyramid" again just recently. Think I will go fry up some some tasty burgers.
"I Love Rock n Roll, gonna put some cattle on the Barbie, Baby"

[IYAS9YAS]

My ever-so-self-righteous former boss used to swear by them. She thought they were actually made from the vegetables depicted on the bag. I told her that they were essentially potato chips (primary ingredients are potato starch and potato flour). The rest was just flavoring.

[Jamestown1630]

There’s nothing wrong with burgers. And there’s nothing wrong with seed oils in themselves.

The problem with snack foods like this is that they’re all made with seed oils and our diets wind up with a big imbalance in the different essential fatty acids.

https://drjessesantiano.com/knowing-omega-3-and-6-imbalance-health-effects-and-how-to-fix/

[Freee-dame]

You can use the free app “Yuka” to read the barcode of any processed food. It will rate that food from 0 to 100. It will give an explanation of its reasoning and list the additives in the food. It will give details on each additive, whether it is OK or harmful. Then you can make an informed decision about what you want to eat.

[lee martell]

Take it from somebody who knows the system;
If you really, truly enjoy a certain food and or beverage, rest assured that food or beverage is ‘bad for you’ in some context.

If I may paraphrase, I believe it was the late Barry Goldwater who said;
“Extremism in the pursuit of ‘health’ is no virtue!!!”
(Exclamation marks are mine).

[Macoozie]

If it’s covered in salt and comes in a half-filled sold by weight, not by volume shiny plastic bag, yeah, pretty much, you can be sure there are much better things for you to eat

[mabarker1]

The Pyramid thing needs to be changed to a Round thing because foods make Us Round.

No matter what We eat it will never make Us into a Pyramid...

[nickcarraway]

I am still very skeptical, but there is a new study saying seed oils are healthy.

[Veto!]

Veggie straws sound revolting to me. No salt for me and no phony colors.
Even gave up eating a nice wheat-free organic cereal because it had colored pieces.

[Kleon]

I basically just eat a rotisserie chicken and a Little Caesar pizza every day. Instead of chips, I take the skin off the chicken and run that through the air fryer.

[Jamestown1630]

As I wrote, seed oils themselves are not unhealthy. It’s the imbalance in our modern diet between omega 6 and omega 3.

Prepared foods use seed oils largely because they’re cheaper; so the average American ‘supermarket diet’ tends to be too full of them.

[A Navy Vet]

Thanks for the info, but do you have to register to get in their site. Seems like you can’t go anywhere anymore without signing into the site.

[Pilsner]

Next they’ll be telling us that Bloody Mary mix isn’t a tomato smoothie.

[Celtic Conservative]

If they’re so concerned just make them out of dried pasta like they did in the 19th century. Nobody is tempted to eat those.

CC

[SkyDancer]

The circle was sad when it met the pyramid because it found out it was pointless.

[metmom]

If it’s covered in salt and comes in a half-filled sold by weight, not by volume shiny plastic bag, yeah, pretty much, you can be sure there are much better things for you to eat

Yeah, like the real veggies.

There are lots that are great to eat fresh and raw. And they're crunchy, too.

[logi_cal869]

My wife brought those home touting their advertising.

I turned the bag over - to a big eyeroll - and called it worse than potato chips. “Junk.”

I stand by that statement.

[tumblindice]

Brawndo oil: the hunger mutilator.