Organic Chips & Salsa for Your Super Bowl Spread
What’s a Super Bowl party without traditional chips and salsa?
IzzitGreen has sought out organic and eco-friendly chips and salsa brands for your Super Bowl fixins so that you can enjoy the big game on Sunday while munching on some good eats.
Muir Glen Organic Salsas
California’s Muir Glen produces five different kinds of salsas – including garlic cilantro, chipotle and black bean & corn — made from vine-ripened tomatoes which they grow “under certified organic practices, [and contain] no synthetic pesticides, no chemical fertilizers” resulting in their products earning the USDA organic certification.
Muir Glen also boasts that its tomatoes get to their processing facility “within eight hours of picking.”
Drew’s Organic Salsas
Another brand which promotes its all natural, USDA Certified Organic salsas is the Vermont-based Drew’s salsas which come in a variety of flavors including: Organic black bean, cilantro & corn; organic thick & chunky (in mild, medium, hot), organic double fire roasted and chipotle lime.
Its hot thick & chunky salsa got props from Rachel Ray Magazine as being the best of the hot salsas they taste-tested. “It’s great flavor without the pain,” the magazine said.
Garden of Eatin’ Tortilla Chips
Now, onto the must-have tortilla chips.
The Garden of Eatin’ company says that only “organic corn, harvested by our sustainable farming partners” goes into their tortilla chips which they say have no preservatives, no synthetic fertilizers, no harmful pesticides, no transfats and no hydrogenated oils.
They offer different types of chips including their popular Blue Corn Tortilla Chips and Red Corn Tortilla Chips which they say “starts with high quality, organic red corn from the Michoacan Highlands of Mexico” and then they “blend . . . a variety of special seeds and spices to deliver a nutty, homemade . . . flavor as deliciously enticing as the chips’ naturally deep, red color.”
The Garden of Eatin’s web site highlights its eco-friendly business practices including the greening of its packaging, reducing the company’s carbon footprint and promoting “healthier communities around the world through ethical and sustainable ingredient sourcing and social and charitable initiatives.”
Food Should Taste Good Tortilla Chips
Massachusetts-based Food Should Taste Good Chips is a company which promotes eco-friendly food and green corporate practices.
Its 13 varieties of chips are free of transfats, do not include genetically modified ingredients and are called “all natural.” The chips are baked then “lightly” cooked in high oleic sunflower oil.
In describing its traditional Yellow Corn chips, the Food Should Taste Good web site said, “We start with all-natural stone ground yellow born to make fresh tortillas, allow them to cool and rest for 24 hours prior to being cut, lightly cooked in sunflower oil and sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt.” Of their Blue Blue Corn chips, the company said, “Nutty flaxseed quinoa and organic blue corn create a robust yet versatile chip.” For those who like it hotter, they offer a Jalapeno tortilla chip which they say has “a lingering hint of heat” and “subtle spiciness.”
The company also touts its green cred, saying: “[W]e have taken steps within our manufacturing facilities and offices to lesson our impact on the environment. Our manufacturing facilities are spread across the country to promote fuel-efficient transportation with less gas usage. Our corrugated packaging is 100 percent recyclable and made 65 percent+ recycled content.”
Guiltless Gourmet Tortilla Chips and Bean Dip
Texas-based Guiltless Gourmet Tortilla Chips are made with stone ground, certified organic corn. They “deliver full-house flavor with a mere fraction of the fat found in fried tortilla chips” by baking them, resulting in zero transfats, the company says.
They offer different organic flavors of tortilla chips — Chipotle, Spicy Black Bean, Chili Lime and Chile Verde – and two different versions of its famous Black Bean Dip (mild and spicy), which are also big hits with the snack set.
Research by Brian Devine
Image credits: Garden of Eatin’, Muir Glen, Drew’s Salsa, Amazon.com
