every time you see a sultry vidya balan on screen selling a healthy chip or amir khan sitting on a crane and selling a baked chip or a saif ali khan pushing you to a bag of healthy and baked chips what do you do these celebrities are paid to sell the chip not paid to eat them so the thought that you are following healthy and fit people goes out of the window secondly are these healthy chips really healthy well that is the biggest question to which you must seek answers nutritonist priya jain hinduja hospital mumbai helps us decode the healthy quotient behind chips marketed as healthy chips caution ahead all one can boast about is baked proprietary products available in the market have less calories than the conventional fried ones dont stop reading at this you deserve to know every detail about how the calories are then compensated without compromising the taste if you think youve read the label may be what you missed out is the comparative analysis of the same let me chip in some comparisons about these chips here the marketing gimmicks are the major reason for health conscious people falling prey to these traps most of the times they forget that the particular food would still need to be consumed sparingly one should note that consuming baked chips doesnt free you from your waistline worries these chips are indeed less in calories compared to the fried ones but arent calorie free also the difference is only significant enough to fool you 150 odd calories from the conventional fried chips vs 120 odd from the baked in that one serving of 2530 g of chips 1518 crisps a fried one offers undesirable calories through fat while the baked one offers the same from easy carbs like sugar corn starch and corns sugar used another furtive fact is that any processed food item is ought to have high sodium content when the ingredients are compared fried chips are made out of potatoes whereas baked ones are made out of dried potatoes this makes it more processed and the sodium content cannot be neglected market also has a range of chips with microlight salt claiming it to be low in salt content lightly salted labels again go slow the chips might be low in salt but they still contain sodium about these chips being cholesterol free the manufacturers arent doing anything special for you the chips are meant to be cholesterol free not fatfree all you need to know is plant sources never have cholesterol so neither potatoes nor oil bear any cholesterol time and again researches have proved that when fats and high temperature cooking gets along baking involves high temperatures too transfats are bound to get generated then why fall for claims as transfat free and expose yourselves with carcinogens more often if you are looking at the 12 g proteins coming from that one serving of chips its as