Are you a fan of chips? Do you love that crunch? Most of us desperately need a bag of chips to engage us. Let us be watching a movie, working on a laptop, reading, or even sightseeing, a bag of chips is an essential item. Moreover, a bag of chips has transformed from a light snack into a replacement for a meal nowadays. Well, what could be the reason behind this huge popularity showered on chips?
Well, to state it in simple terms, it is tasty, cheap and convenient. The low cost and convenience of eating are the elements that draw such a large crowd to chips. But is this a good choice of food?
Chips and you
Well, it doesn’t require rocket science to conclude that chips aren’t a healthy food option. Actually, it is a really bad choice of food. Chips are an extremely low nutritious food that has high-fat content. They are high in sodium, high in fat and will make you gain weight. Moreover, due to their mode of preparation, chips can also have harmful by-products. So, overall, chips are bad.
Yet, they are tasty, and their texture is so inviting. More than the taste, the crunch is irresistible. But it is fairly clear that chips are a big no. So, what will we do to fill in that gap? What will we munch on from now on? What will give you that crunch that brings you so much delight every day? Well, I may have a solution to all your troubles. You don’t necessarily have to say goodbye to chips. Yeah, you just have to start making them on your own!
Advantages of making your own chips
It might sound like a lot, but the prospect of making your own chips comes with various advantages. First, you can decide what goes into your chip and what doesn’t. That means you can avoid all the unhealthy, harmful substances. Then you can customize your chips. You can decide what flavouring you will do, how much quantity you want, etc.
Moreover, you can swap the old, good yet boring potato with something a bit healthier. You know, swap the potato that only gives you carbohydrates with something like a tomato with multiple health benefits. Do you want to know how to make a batch of awesome, healthy, equally crispy tomato chips?
Let’s make Tomato chips!
Actually, it is fairly easy to make something like tomato chips. Let me walk you through it.
Ingredients required
- Tomatoes: 2 large
- Cooking spray
- Kosher Salt
In this recipe, I’m explaining how to make normal salted tomato chips. If you want flavorful chips, then add your favourite seasoning to it along with salt. Now let’s look at what we should do next.
Let’s prepare Tomato chips
- First, thinly slice tomatoes in almost ¼ inch width
- Lay sliced tomatoes on the cutting board
- Sprinkle salt generously on the tomatoes and let me sit for 15 minutes
- After 15 minutes, remove the water drawn out of the tomatoes by patting them using a paper towel
- Sprinkle salt on them once more, wait 5 minutes and dry them again.
- Now generously grease a microwaveable plate with cooking spray
- Place the tomato slices onto the plate and spray them once again.
- Finally, place them in the microwave for 5 minutes on level 7
- After 5 minutes, flip the tomato slices and microwave that side for another minute.
Your tomato chips are ready. Now, remove it from the microwave and enjoy crunchy, crispy, delicious, nutritious tomato chips. Do you want to know what switching from regular unhealthy, harmful chips to homemade healthy, delicious tomato chips can do for you? Let’s go
Advantages of switching to tomato chips
All the advantages of switching to tomato chips come from the tomato used to make them, right? So let’s dove into the health benefits provided by tomatoes.
- The lycopene in tomatoes strengthens your immune system.
- The zeaxanthin in tomatoes improves the health of your eyes.
- The lycopene in tomatoes reduces LDL and blood pressure levels, lowering your cardiovascular risk.
- The lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin in tomatoes will help you to prevent lung diseases like emphysema.
- Having more tomatoes can reduce your risk of getting a stroke
- The lycopene in tomatoes will help to fight oral diseases like gingivitis and periodontitis
- Finally, the lycopene in tomatoes will shield you from the sun by acting like sunscreen. So it helps to improve your skin, just like Nutriplus SkinHealth!
As you may have understood from reading the benefits provided by tomatoes, lycopene is the main hero. Well then, what do you think about a product that extracts the goodness of lycopene from tomatoes? It will be more impressive and more beneficial, right? Well, that is exactly what Nutriplus SkinHealth is.
Nutriplus SkinHealth
This product from Nutriplus is made with the goodness of tomatoes; lycopene. But, from the information we gathered earlier, we understood that, lycopene alone won’t suffice. As a result, we added other skin-preserving elements like wheat germ oil and Vitamin E in to the product. So, in short, this product can single-handedly treat the dryness, scars and spots on your skin. Moreover, it will also resist the damage caused by free radicals and skin inflammation.
Finally, whether you make the healthy step towards switching to tomato chips or take a step further and get your own Nutriplus SkinHealth, both are extremely advantageous to your overall well-being. Always remember that health is the most important thing on this planet, and if needed and possible, you should always go that extra mile to maintain and preserve it. So, stay happy and stay safe.
