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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 03, 2023, 02:09:48 pm ---According to Livestrong, a serving (1 oz) of Pringles has 9 grams of fat, 2.5 of it saturated, whereas Baked Lays has 3.5 grams of fat, none of it saturated. Baked Lays has 2 grams of sugar whereas Pringles has none. They are about the same in sodium.
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Baked Lays 15g carbs and 1.2g fiber
Pringles: 16g carbs and <1g fiber
Jeff Wrangler:
Herr's Baked Potato Crisps
The whole 2-1/8 oz. bag:
5 g total fat, 1 g saturated fat
0 cholesterol
380 mg sodium ( :o )
47 g total carbs
4 g total sugar, 3 g added sugar
serious crayons:
I was going to say wow, that's a lot of carbs, but I went back and realized my figures were for one ounce. Plus I have the wrong figure above for Lay's, for some reason. Can't remember where I saw it but on the Walmart site it's 22g/oz for the low-fat one -- low-fat things often have more carbs because they add sugar to make up for the loss of fat flavor. For 2.5 ounces the carbs in Baked Lays would be about 47g; Pringles 34g.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 04, 2023, 11:29:46 am ---I was going to say wow, that's a lot of carbs, but I went back and realized my figures were for one ounce. Plus I have the wrong figure above for Lay's, for some reason. Can't remember where I saw it but on the Walmart site it's 22g/oz for the low-fat one -- low-fat things often have more carbs because they add sugar to make up for the loss of fat flavor. For 2.5 ounces the carbs in Baked Lays would be about 47g; Pringles 34g.
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The general rule seems to be, If something tastes good, it's bad for you.
Things that are low in fat seem to be high in sodium and/or sugar (both bad for you in large amounts).
Things that are low in sodium and/or sugar, seem to be high in fat/cholesterol.
You can't win. But then, we probably shouldn't be eating potato chips/crisps anyway. ...
I need to check the stats for pretzels. I try to be good and buy "unsalted minis," which have no taste, but sometimes I buy regular pretzels.
I do stick with the "minis" because I figure if I know the number of pretzels that make up one serving, I can do a little math and figure out the stats for one pretzel--at least in theory.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 04, 2023, 11:46:51 am ---The general rule seems to be, If something tastes good, it's bad for you.
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Well, only in that we consider weight gain bad. Fat was very good for you back in the Pleistocene, because it kept you from starving. Most people probably didn't live long enough to have heart attacks. As for sugar, I once heard from a doctor that no sweet thing in nature is poisonous. So I guess that means poison berries aren't sweet, though I won't be putting them to a taste test. Anyway, that supposedly explains how humans developed a taste for sweets along with fat.
--- Quote ---Things that are low in fat seem to be high in sodium and/or sugar (both bad for you in large amounts).
Things that are low in sodium and/or sugar, seem to be high in fat/cholesterol.
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Some exceptions would be vegetables, meat, fish, eggs and nuts. (All but vegetables have some fat but it's the good kind and not enough to be harmful to health in and of themselves.)
--- Quote ---I need to check the stats for pretzels. I try to be good and buy "unsalted minis," which have no taste, but sometimes I buy regular pretzels.
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I get nuts or trail mix. I do get salted, though. My bp was up last time I went to the doctor, so I should start being more careful than I have been. I love pretzels, though. And popcorn. I like potato and tortilla chips but can pass them up. I out and out hate Cheetos. Blecchhhh, as Mad Magazine would say.
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