Healthy Find: California Cassava Chips

In between snacks during meals are essential to me. As much as I love to eat, having snacks in between meals can aide in digestion and maintain an ideal weight. That is if what you snack on is healthy. I have to say I still struggle when it comes to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Good thing I found a healthy alternative to my all time favorite snack; I’ve discovered California Crunch Cassava Chips.

What is Cassava?

Cassava is a shrubby, tropical, perennial plant that is not well known in the temperate zone. Cassava thrives better in poor soils than any other major food plant. As a result, fertilization is rarely necessary. Cassava is a heat-loving plant that requires a minimum temperature of 80 degrees F to grow. Since many cultivars are drought resistant, cassava can survive even during the dry season when the soil moisture is low, and humidity is high.

Around the world, cassava is a vital staple for about 500 million people. Cassava’s starchy roots produce more food energy per unit of land than any other staple crop. Nutritionally, the cassava is comparable to potatoes, except that it has twice the fibre content and a higher level of potassium.

In Asia, cassava is used in a variety of food products, the same way potatoes are used in the U.S. They can be used as vegetables in dishes, grated to make pancakes, dried and ground into tapioca flour, or sliced and made into snack chips.

California Crunch Cassava Chips

Unlike our Asian neighbours, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, have a huge market for cassava as a snack compared to the Philippines. Our Company’s mission is to introduce Cassava as a healthy and delicious alternative to potato and flour based snacks. Here are other reasons why our Company developed California Crunch Cassava Chips:

• Cassava has twice the fibre and more potassium than potato
• California Crunch Cassava Chips has 30% less fat than potato chips.
• California Crunch Cassava Chips has 0 % cholesterol.

Yes, you see it right. 0% cholesterol and 30% less fat than potato chips. No guilt feeling if you snack away.

Sour Cream & Onions.

California Crunch Cassava Chips Sour Cream & Onions, an American twist to an Asian Snack. We cannot imagine anyone who can resist the sweet, fresh and tangy combination of sour cream and onions. The classic seasoning goes great with potatoes and surprisingly amazing with cassava chips.

Barbecue.

Sweet start and Spicy finish, these two flavours are always related when it comes to Asian barbecues. As soon as our snacks are eaten, the sweet flavour is tasted first and when the sweetness fades away, the spicy goodness comes bursting out. Just an incredible combination, words can’t truly describe the experience.

I’ve always loved sour cream & onions in almost all kinds of variety, may it be popcorn, french fries and yes even on chips. But I also love sweet & spicy flavors and surprisingly California Crunch barbecue is just that; tangy combined with the right amount of spiciness. So if I were to pick one flavor; I’d choose barbecue while lil’ Ms. GJG choose sour cream.

Here’s lil’ Ms. GJG as my taste tester.

Yep, she likes it a lot! She almost finished the entire bag in one sitting.

California Crunch Cassava chips is definitely a healthy and yummy alternative to the fattening potato chips. If you’re worried about the taste, I assure you it doesn’t taste cassava-y at all. For those of you who just loves snacking on chips as much as we do then you have to try this yourself.

California Crunch Cassava Chips is available at selected SM Supermarkets, SM Hypermarkets, Super 8, Mercury Drug stores and Gourdo’s at P44.50/bag.