Healthier Frito-Lay chip products, non-GMO, Organic, G/F, soy free, sea salt, organic sunflower oil

I mentioned these chips on another thread, but thought I'd make a post on it.

Been grain free on Paleo diet 2.5 months, wanted to re-intro corn chips since corn has not produced noticeable food intolerance symptoms in my past. But now that I know how wide spread GMO / herbicide polluted corn can be in food, I'm not so eager to consume it like I did before when eating chips for snacks.

So now that I read all ingredients on everything, I noticed some corn chips actually say "made with GMO products". If it doesnt say "NON-GMO", assume its with GMO.

NON-GMO cost more, so if they choose this, they want to let you know why the price is higher by labeling it.

Also "ORGANIC" does not legally mean NON-GMO. Yep, many organic products include GMO grains. Kind of mis-leading, hu? "Organic" is a BS word. This is why we might soon have laws stating these definitions more truthfully.

I bought a med bag of "Simply" Tostitos, which lacks all the bad stuff, for $3.50 at wal-mart. They have Ruffles and Cheetos made in the same manner. How they pull this off in the form of "the orange chemical latent Cheetos" seems mind boggling to me. The Tostitos are a little more bland than the regular ones, less oils and less salt explains the taste diff.

Anyway, I've seen very high priced "healthier" chips at the fancy yuppity food store for $7-8 a bag. These were $3.50.

julymorning said...


I hope this Tostitos brand is trustworthy.

Well, its a nation -wide brand, with all the certified labels on it. They would have a lot to lo$e if it were a lie.

The whole "organic" label being a possible lie on some products itself is mind blowing - unless it ALSO SAYS NON-GMO (like this one does!).

This is why we need strict food label and terminology laws in the US.

Girlie said...
In Canada, there are strict laws on what organic means.

I would think it's the same in the U.S.?

The trouble with laws is, they need to enforced. FDA and USDA budgets are paper thin as it is and from what I am reading, many of the food industry laws are going to be repealed.

I dare not say more we don't want a political discussion here at all...

But I will add that no country is perfect making the right choice between law and profit if they have found a way to get away with it.

I make tortillas and then I cut them up and fry them in olive oil and make my own chips.

Then I know exactly what I am eating. I don't eat stuff in a bag or a box. When I read that bag or box it has stuff I cannot pronounce.

Can't say it, don't eat it.

The nut thing......food processors are generally extremely careful on that and labeling. I imagine there have been some law suit pay offs on that from the past. The kind of thing that can cause the death to someone.....but look at the meat processing industry and careless handling there, with resultant E coli
disasters.


Testing is random and unannounced. I just try not to be paranoid about it all.