OK I’m ready to saunter down to the old couch later today to watch the Boston Red Sox do their thing (I can practically hear a million unsubscribe clicks from Yankee Fans). I have a few organic beers, natural homemade salsa and of course the sesame & seaweed rice chips. That’s right seaweed rice chips, my food is getting stranger and stranger… I guess I’m a newbie in the world of rice chips. In fact, this bag was given 
to me just last night by someone trying to eat a little healthier. So being Mr. Know-it-all I checked out the ingredients..not too bad. The only ingredient with a chemical name was tricalcium phosphate used as an anticaking agent. This is actually not as bad as it sounds. Tricalcium phosphate is a naturally occurring compound and one of it’s uses as a calcium salt nutritional supplement. Other information I could glean from the bag was that the chips were made of 11% organic ingredients. Not great, but it could be 11% worse.
As far as nutrition they have 140 calories per 10 chips (about the same as Doritos), 7 g fat (0.5 of this saturated and no trans fat), 0 cholesterol, 90 mg sodium, 18g carbohydrates and 2g protein. So they’re not absolutely horrible but not a nutritional superstar either.
As far as taste…Awesome. I love the darn things. They have a lot going on spice-wise but are in no way hot (even though they have some cayenne pepper). Sort of “a lot going on” in the same way that those popular chips that have that powdery coating that gets all over your fingers does. I say “sort of” because that powdery coating is sort of sickening and phony tasting as opposed to these chips which have a clean taste. Also, you get no powder on your fingers since the spices such as garlic and onion are actually part of the chip and not this top coating.
Specifically, the ingredients are Brown Rice, brown rice flour, organic masa corn flour, white rice flour, high oleic expeller-pressed safflower or sunflower oil, organic sesame seeds, dried seaweed flakes, evaporated cane juice, salt, torula yeast, dehydrated garlic, yeast extract, sesame oil, dehydrated onion, honey powder, cultured whey (contains milk), paprika, ginger, cayenne pepper, citric acid, tricalcium phosphate (anticaking agent), steam distilled oil of ginger and natural caramel color. You can get more information about this company at Lundberg Family Farms.
All this being said, these chips are definitely on my list occasional snack foods to bring on a kayak trip or when watching a game. My mainstays are still fresh fruit, nuts, dried oatmeal (Mmmm. Oatmeal), wraps etc. But some of these chips will mix things up nicely as they will tonight during the ballgame. You should give these a try. Enjoy and live naturally.
