Kiddylicious Veggie Straws (Vegetable) — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Kiddylicious Veggie Straws (Vegetable) by Kiddylicious ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
A refined potato-starch and flour snack for babies dressed up as vegetables — the actual veg content is barely over 1%.
Why this verdict
- Potato starch and refined rice/pea flour make up over 70% — this is a refined-starch snack, not a vegetable
- Actual vegetables (tomato, kale, spinach, beetroot) total only about 1.1%
- Refined starch plus rapeseed oil is the same base as ordinary crisps, just shaped for babies
- Added salt in a food aimed at 9-month-olds, whose kidneys can't handle much sodium
Ingredients (10)
- Potato starch (32%) (moderate) — Refined starch that spikes blood sugar fast and brings no fibre, protein or micronutrients.
- rapeseed oil (moderate) — Refined seed oil used to carry seasoning and add fat/calories.
- Rice flour (20%) (moderate) — Refined grain flour — another fast-digesting starch with little nutritional value.
- Yellow pea flour (19%) (moderate) — Adds a little plant protein but is still a refined, processed flour.
- POTASSIUM CHLORIDE (safe) — Salt substitute for seasoning.
- Salt (moderate) — Adds sodium; fine in moderation but the main reason to watch portion size.
- Tomato powder (0.4%) (safe) — A trace of real vegetable — too little to matter nutritionally.
- Kale powder (0.3%) (safe) — Token amount of kale; present for the 'veggie' label, not meaningful nutrition.
- Spinach powder (0.3%) (safe) — Trace vegetable powder used for color and branding.
- Beetroot powder (0.1%) (safe) — A pinch of beetroot for natural color; negligible nutritionally.