Plantain chips?
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Plantain chips?
| Tue, 04-19-2005 - 6:14pm |
found a bag of Plantain chips at Trader Joe's today. The ingredients were plantains, palm oil and salt. That's it. You think these were okay? I ate them all and threw out the bag so I don't know the calories or fat grams.

Actually most of the banana and plantain "chips" are not dehydrated like apple "chips" are, they are fried. I was so bummed when I made that discovery a few years ago! Banana chips were one of my favorite snacks, and I also thought they were just dehydrated, but nope! Fried! That's why the "palm oil" is in the ingredients. A dehydrated fruit won't have any oil in the ingredients!
I've made my own dehydrated bananas - not at all the same texture as the fried ones - kind of chewy like a dehydrated apricot or apple is, and not nearly as good!
MichaelAnn
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MichaelAnn, this might sound silly, but have you thought of maybe baking that dehydrated banana chip that you made? It might make it a little criper, maybe more like the store bought ones? Just a thought.
Michele
Good idea! Certainly worth trying. I haven't done dehydrate fruit in YEARS though, I got rid of my food dehydrator about 5 yrs ago since it was sitting around collecting dust most of the time. I was thiniking of getting another one (to make stuff for the kids mostly, and maybe some sugar-free jerkey for dh and I) If I ever do I will have to try that!
MichaelAnn
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