Gaby McPherson, a Missouri-registered dietitian, examined the nutritional profile of a single-serving bag of baked and fried chips to see if the lower-fat options were healthier, and her findings may surprise you.
Baked chips have grown in popularity as a healthy alternative to heavy, fried choices, with food makers pushing them as such, but McPherson’s findings, which were published on Monday on the EatingWell website, suggest otherwise.
Allied business Research predicts that the baked chip business will be worth $10.9 billion by 2031, up from $6.2 billion in 2021, according to The New York Post.
However, McPherson’s research indicates that fried potato chips may not be as unhealthy.
While the nutritionist claims that fried potato chips had higher calories and fat, she also found that the differences between those chips and baked chips were not significant.
A single serving bag of fried chips contains 149 calories, 10 grams of total fat, and 1 gram of saturated fat, whereas baked chips contain 131 calories, 5 grams of fat, and 0.7 grams of saturated fat.
“Baked chips supply less fat overall than ordinary chips, making them only marginally lower in calories, resulting in a negligible.
