Tortilla Chip
A popular snack food these days, easily available from supermarkets and local stores is a bag of Tortilla chip, basically potato chips with chilli seasoning. An invention of the food industry, they taste a lot like spicy cardboard, make you fat, cost almost nothing to produce and are overpriced.
A quick Google search on the subject will bring up huge numbers of pages about snacks, plus a few like chipinfo.org.uk which may or may not be of help, but the general info on ingredients may make you hair curl as regards the number of unidentifiable chemicals used in the manufacture of Tortilla chip.
Colourings, flavourings, monosodium glutamate and much else are all used to make basically worthless ingredients taste good, and fortunes are spent by the food industry on researching and advertising Tortilla chip, mostly aimed at kids and young people.
The natural food companies who manufacture Tortilla chip and such snacks with good ingredients are usually smaller organisations who don’t have fortunes to spend on advertising, so may be unlikely to crop up online on sites such as chipinfo.org.uk, but their relatively harmless and good-tasting products can be found in health food stores.
Chipinfo.org.uk may or may not give info about the foodie version of chips, but there’s enough info out there to dissuade parents from letting their children indulge in mass-produced, chemical-loaded rubbish of this type.
