Do you consider chips & salsa a junk food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a new WSJ piece detailing a WSJ editor's journey on Mounjaro (similar to Ozempic). He claims as soon as he jumped off it, the first "bad" food he immediately craved was chips & salsa. Bad? That kind of popped off the page to me.

Am I just naive or is chips & salsa (or chips & guac) really not that unhealthy? Or maybe there are wide variances of tortilla chips people consume and there are some super unhealthy tortilla chips? Or jarred salsas full of tons of sodium?

We make fresh or buy the fresh salsa (or guac) at WF and use organic blue tortilla chips. I honestly never considered it a bad snack.

You are eating junk food. Please stop. Eat some wonderful melon or a nice salad with rocket and baby kale/baby gems.

[Anonymous]

Salsa is fine. Its the chips that are the problem. They're fried and high in salt and fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a new WSJ piece detailing a WSJ editor's journey on Mounjaro (similar to Ozempic). He claims as soon as he jumped off it, the first "bad" food he immediately craved was chips & salsa. Bad? That kind of popped off the page to me.

Am I just naive or is chips & salsa (or chips & guac) really not that unhealthy? Or maybe there are wide variances of tortilla chips people consume and there are some super unhealthy tortilla chips? Or jarred salsas full of tons of sodium?

We make fresh or buy the fresh salsa (or guac) at WF and use organic blue tortilla chips. I honestly never considered it a bad snack.

You are eating junk food. Please stop. Eat some wonderful melon or a nice salad with rocket and baby kale/baby gems.

No, shan't

[Anonymous]

But the salt raises my blood pressure to blow out the cholesterol through my veins. It’s all good!

[Anonymous]

Homemade salsa, definitely not a junk.

The problems with chips is the type of oil they use (or sometimes they are even deep-fried). But as an occasional snack... I don't see the big deal as long as you don't plow through half a bag in one sitting.

Maybe this is an unusual take but "healthy" can also be about the mental effects. If you are happy eating chips & salsa on occasion, I think there is value in that over being rigid and eating some tragic superfood crackers.