4 Best Organic Tortilla Chips Fried in Healthy Oils

Continuing with popular foods served at Super Bowl parties, we come to another type of chips and that as tortilla chips. Tortilla chips are the second most popular types of chips while watching the big game. They’re right behind potato chips. Chip makers earn around $224 million with tortilla chips when it’s Super Bowl time.

Like potato chips, many tortilla chips also have the problem of being fried in seed oils such canola, soybean, and corn oil, Another conntventional tortilla chips aren’t organic and are have several pesticides applied to them. In the case of tortilla chips, that also means genetically modified corn.

Thanks to a small number of manufacturers, there are now options for organic, non-GMO tortilla chips fried in traditional fats such as beef tallow, coconut oil, palm oil, and avocado oil. I’m pleased to be able to release an article devoted specifically to better tortilla chips and hope the number of options for this will grow in the near future. 

In alphabetical order, here are the 4 best organic tortilla chips fried in healthy oils:

 

Healthy Traditions

In 1998, Healthy Traditions founder Brian Shilhavy learned about the benefits of coconut oil when he moved to the Philippines with his Filipino wife and their three children. Unfortunately, at this time, coconut farmers couldn’t support their families due to the 80s and 90s negative U.S. campaigns against tropical oils. So Brian began making coconut oil himself and by the way of traditional methods from older generations. He put the coconut oil up for sale on the Internet and the demand for coconut oil skyrocketed. When Brian’s family was forced to leave the Philippines, they had to transition from buying fresh farms from their local community and shopping at a local public market to buying food on the shelves at stores with little to no information of who the food producers were. So Brian sought out well sourced food and healthy products. In 2002, he launched Tropical Traditions and then changed the name to Healthy Traditions in 2017.  Today, Healthy Traditions offers a huge assortment of healthy products using traditional methods and their products contain all types of healthy oils and fats. For chips, they have tortilla chips cooked in coconut oil in the flavors of Mexican corn, restaurant style kickin’ chili lime, sweet cinnamon churro, and taste of the Mediterranean.  

 

Masa

Unsatisfied with all of the chips on the market, Ancient Crunch founder Steven A. set out to create a chips with two simple requirements. First, the corn must be naturally grown and the tortillas must be naturally prepared. Second, the tortillas need to be free of any inflammatory seed oils. So he came up with MASA, the first tortilla chips made with both organic corn and grass fed tallow. MASA is available in the options of original, lime, cobanero, churro, and blue corn. 

  

Siete

Siete‘s formation can be traced to founder Veronica Garza’s family of seven (or siete in Spanish) helping her overcome numerous health challenges. As a teen, Veronica was diagnosed with multiple autoimmune conditions which made her fatigued, overweight, and depressed. So her family began exercising and joined her in following a low-inflammation, grain free diet. Being a Mexican American family in South Texas, using lettuce in place of the flour and corn tortillas for tacos and fajitas wasn’t cutting it. Veronica began making grain free tortillas. When her Grandmother Campos told her that the grain free tortillas tasted better than the flour tortillas her grandmother had been making for decades, Veronica knew she had a winning product she could sell on the market. The first products were tortillas and tortilla chips made from cassava flour and fried in avocado oil. Siete has since delved into avocado oil potato chips and tortilla chips and even sauces, seasonings, churro strips, and cookies. Their tortilla chips are available in the varieties of sea salt, dairy free Mexican street corn, lime, and blue corn. 

 

Xochitl

Xochitl president and founder Carlos Salinas comes from a family making chipotle salsa for over 90 years. Carlos taught himself how to make the salsas while he was growing up. Friends would tell him all the time that he should market it. One day, a woman called him up at random and asked for 200 jars. Carlos was up for the challenge and then began making small batches of his salsa and test marketing it. The acceptance of his salsa drove him to develop other products. Among them are the corn chips in various flavors but all fried in palm olein. Since its founding in 2005, Xochitl remains 100% minority owned and operated. They offer their chips in the flavors of salted, no salt, picositos con limon, sprouted corn, white corn, and blue corn. 

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