Frito Lay has a 'healthy' snack entitled NatuChips Original Plantain Chips.
Plantain? BRITANNICA explains, "[a] major group of banana varieties (genus Musa) that are staple foods in many tropical areas. The edible fruit of plantain bananas has more starch than the common dessert banana and is not eaten raw. Because plantains have the most starch before they ripen, they are usually cooked green, either boiled or fried, in savory dishes. The ripe fruits are mildly sweet and are often cooked with coconut juice or sugar as a flavouring. Plantains may also be dried for later use in cooking or ground for use as a meal, which can be further refined to a flour."
So these should be healthier than potato chips, right? They need to be something because they taste stale and like cardboard. No one's buying these for the taste clearly.
But if you're buying them for health reasons?
You're being played.
Muncho Chips are among the most generic of potato chips. Each serving (about 16 chips) of Munchos has 16 grams of carbs. A Muncho chip is twice the size of a NatuChips so a serving of NatuChips (about 32 chips) has 18 grams of carbs. Not a healthier choice at all.
So they don't taste better (in fact, they taste much worse) and they aren't healthier for you so why should you buy them?
Ask Frito Lay.