Good & Gather Sea Salt Veggie Straws — ENGINEERED

Munch or Dump rates Good & Gather Sea Salt Veggie Straws by Good & Gather ENGINEERED — score 30/90.

Despite the garden imagery, these are mostly potato and corn starch fried in oil with a pinch of cane sugar; the spinach, tomato and beet are trace powders there for color. It is a hyper-palatable extruded-starch snack wearing a vegetable costume. Fine as a chip, just don't mistake it for eating your veggies.

Why this verdict

• Base is potato starch, potato flour and corn starch, which is refined starch shaped into a straw, not a vegetable.
• Hyper-palatable triad present: refined starch + vegetable oil + cane sugar.
• The 'veggie' vegetables (spinach, tomato, beet) appear as trace powders used mainly for color.
• Two salt additions plus potassium chloride make this a salty, crave-engineered snack with little real nutrition.

Ingredients (8)

• potato starch (moderate) — Refined, fast-digesting starch; the true base of the snack.
• Potato Flour (moderate) — More refined potato reinforcing the starch base.
• Corn Starch (moderate) — Refined starch used for the puffed O texture; the least whole-food item.
• Vegetable oil (canola/safflower/sunflower) (moderate) — Refined frying oil; the main calorie source in a deep-fried chip.
• Cane Sugar (caution) — Present in both chocolates; the white coating is sugar-forward.
• Spinach, tomato and beet powders (safe) — Real vegetable powders, but present in trace amounts mainly for color, not nutrition.
• Salt, sea salt and potassium chloride (caution) — Multiple sodium/salt-substitute additions push the sodium load up.
• calcium chloride (safe) — Firming and processing aid, generally benign.