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Inka Crops Inka Crops Roasted Plantains, 4-Ounce bags (Pack of 12)

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These are the best roasted, lightly salted plantain chips I have ever had. I have tried many brands and these are the best hands down. They are full flavored but not over-powering. They have just enough salt on them to taste but it does not cover the flavor of the plantains themselves. Great product.

These plantain chips have just the right amount of thickness and crunch to make them satisfying as a crunchy snack. They are not a sweet snack like banana chips, but more like a thicker salty potato chip. One oz. has 60 mg sodium and 220 mg of potassium, 6 g fat, 1 g of fiber, no cholesterol, and 140 calories. These chips would be good for most people with food allergies, since the only ingredients are plantains, palm olein, and sea salt.

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For future reference maybe you can take a picture of the back for nutrition information. I am very sensitive to salt and although I love love plantain, I thought it had a lot of salt. Others might feel that the amount of salt was just enough, personal preference. Otherwise the product got here within the date so I have nothing to comaplain about. You did not packed the product so the blame is not on you

The 4 ounce Inka Plantain Chips countains 4 servings of 140 calories each (60 calories from fat). Sodium 60 mg., Potassium 220 mg, Total Fat 6g (9%), Saturated Fat 2.5 g (13%), 0 Trans Fat, Carbohydrates 20g (0 sugar), Protein 1g, Fiber 1g, Vitamin A (6%), Vitamin C (15%). The good news about the fat is that it is a plant based saturated short chain fatty acid, so your body can digest it efficiently.

For anyone who isn't familiar with plantain, it is an Asian fruit, which like it's cousin, the banana, was introduced to the new world by medieval explorers, such as the Portuguese and Spanish sailors. For more than a year, I was looking for a good gluten-free cracker and I never considered a plantain chip as an excellent substitute until now, and shame on me, because I discovered them about twenty years ago. As a matter of fact, instead of making dumplings out of wheat flour, Puerto Ricans make them out of ground green plantains or bananas. I never ate plantain chips as a kid, but I did enjoy the plantain dumplings in soup; they were delicious and low in fat. Puerto Ricans also combine the ground plantain with other tropical tubers and stewed meats to make a huge dumpling that they boil in parchment paper in order to keep it intact while it cooks in a light brine; it's delicious and filling. At the West Indian markets in NYC, they sell plantain, banana, casava, and peanut flour. So, if you like to cook and experiment, you may want to make dumplings from such flours; I'm not a cook.

The Inka chips are thicker than the plantain chips that I ate years ago, making them a suitable cracker substitute. I cover them with peanut butter or fruit preserves and enjoy them as a snack. I also crush them and add them to my bowl of soup in order to give the soup a nice crunch; these chips hold up well in liquid, better than Saltine crackers, with less salt.

I bought these at my local supermarket and I had to throw them away. You can feel a burnt oil taste, very disappointing.

I just came back from a trip to Puerto Rico where we ate plantanutras (plantain chips) by the pound everywhere we could find them. These chips are just as good as the ones there and very similar in taste. Not too salty, but not salt-free. I found them at a local store where somebody else had requested them. The store had 10 bags. I bought 9 so the next person wouldn't be completely disappointed - -and I asked the manager to order a lot more. Yum! By the way, I had some serious intestinal problems this past year from stress at work and some kind of stomach virus, and I ate a lot of celery which helped. But I found that I could also eat plantains -- both green and yellow. I fry my own and buy the chips to take on the road or days when I don't have time to peel those suckers.

These chips are much like one would make at home. They are superior in taste and texture to a much more popular and available brand (which shall remain unnamed). If you want to know how real plantain chips should taste, these are the ones you should buy. Take it from one who was raised on them.