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Enki_Amenra said:
Potato dust, processed into a chip. 42%. So it's not slices of potato. They turn it into a mush and dry it into chip shapes. They can't call them chips.
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The potato flakes are produced by the same potato farmers that provide potatoes to French fry and chip makers. It’s not a mush. It’s mixed with different ratios of corn or rice (depending on what part of the world they are produced—8 plants worldwide). They are then made into dough sheets and pressed onto saddles (think cookie cutter). These saddles then ride through a very long oil fryer (usually canola or cottonseed) and are then salted, seasoned, and canned. The US plant produces over 5 million cans a day. In a typical year, 15 new or seasonal flavors are launched. Sorry for the long response. 😀
 
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jave36 said:
Ya I don't understand the aversion to ground up potatoes. It's dehydrated mashed potatoes. That's not that bad.
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The real interesting and altogether typical “true” misrepresentation is that the main ingredient is actually added starch. The instant mashed potatoes are only 40%. This is accomplished by using 3 different varieties of starch. So instead of frankly stating : 1. Processed starches. 2. Instant mashed potatoes. 3. Salt or whatever. Potatoes come out as the first ingredient. This is done by division.

Contrarily, the common labels that scream “with extra virgin olive oil!” Or whatever. Then you look at ingredients and it says “Oil x% (rapeseed, sunflower, automotive, evoo). Buyer is supposed to think evoo is a major ingredient. If the oils weren’t misrepresented by being combined (addition) the evoo might well show up at the end, somewhere after salt and some unpronounceables.
 
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Orange. said:
The real interesting and altogether typical “true” misrepresentation is that the main ingredient is actually added starch. The instant mashed potatoes are only 40%. This is accomplished by using 3 different varieties of starch. So instead of frankly stating : 1. Processed starches. 2. Instant mashed potatoes. 3. Salt or whatever. Potatoes come out as the first ingredient. Because the added starches are divided.

Like the common labels that scream “with extra virgin olive oil!” Then you look at it and it says “Oil (rapeseed, sunflower, automotive, evoo). Buyer is supposed to think evoo is a major ingredient. If the oils weren’t misrepresented by being grouped, the evoo might show up at the end, somewhere after salt and some unpronounceables. Because the oils are grouped together.
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Easy way to tell. The FDA requires food companies to label the ingredients in order of percentage of actual material in the product.
 
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Orange. said:
The real interesting and altogether typical “true” misrepresentation is that the main ingredient is actually added starch. The instant mashed potatoes are only 40%. This is accomplished by using 3 different varieties of starch. So instead of frankly stating : 1. Processed starches. 2. Instant mashed potatoes. 3. Salt or whatever. Potatoes come out as the first ingredient.

The opposite procedure are the common labels that scream “with extra virgin olive oil!” Then you look at it and it says “Oil (rapeseed, sunflower, automotive, evoo). Buyer is supposed to think evoo is a major ingredient. If the oils weren’t misrepresented by being grouped, the evoo might show up at the end, somewhere after salt and some unpronounceables.
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I loled at automotive
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
They're not, really. It's that there is only 40% potato in the concoction.
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The corn rice and wheat flours and starches aren't all that bad either. Just a weird item to pick on. It's a bunch of starches and grains ground into powder, mixed with water, and fried in oil. True it's closer to a bread than a chip, but there are lots of far worse foods out there to spotlight.
 
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Vols4us said:
Corn starch and rice flour mixed in with the dehydrated potato flakes.

Or you can just buy potato chips.

I don't eat either one.
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Potato chips are my vice, I ate an entire bag of golden flake BBQ chips today. Luckily I don't care to eat much sugar.

Never liked pringles, but I don't think they're any worse for you than whole foods potato chips just because they have other starches besides potatoes.
 
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jave36 said:
Potato chips are my vice, I ate an entire bag of golden flake BBQ chips today. Luckily I don't care to eat much sugar.

Never liked pringles, but I don't think they're any worse for you than whole foods potato chips just because they have other starches besides potatoes.
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You should try UTZ Crab Chips
 
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hooperj75 said:
The potato flakes are produced by the same potato farmers that provide potatoes to French fry and chip makers. It’s not a mush. It’s mixed with different ratios of corn or rice (depending on what part of the world they are produced—8 plants worldwide). They are then made into dough sheets and pressed onto saddles (think cookie cutter). These saddles then ride through a very long oil fryer (usually canola or cottonseed) and are then salted, seasoned, and canned. The US plant produces over 5 million cans a day. In a typical year, 15 new or seasonal flavors are launched. Sorry for the long response. 😀
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hooperj75 said:
Easy way to tell. The FDA requires food companies to label the ingredients in order of percentage of actual material in the product.
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Unfortunately not. I was explaining how exactly that very rule is exploited and used against the shopper by the simple operations of addition and division. No biggie. It just irks me because it’s so dishonest and obvious. Idk if the parentheses trick is part of the rule or not mentioned and its use is tacitly endorsed.
 
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