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Eatsmart Sea Salt Garden Veggie Sticks
Snacks, Chips & Dips
📊 NOVA 4🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-Free🥛 Dairy-Free

Eatsmart Sea Salt Garden Veggie Sticks

Eatsmart®
7 oz
Available at Foodtown
140
Calories
1g
Protein
210mg
Sodium
1g
Fiber
23
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Eatsmart Sea Salt Garden Veggie Sticks arrive in a familiar 7 oz sealed snack bag and would typically sit on the supermarket snack aisle beside potato chips, veggie chips and other branded better-for-you crisps. Packaged and marketed as a vegetable-forward alternative, the brand leans into “real ingredients” language — potato, tomato and spinach powders — and highlights sea salt and expeller-pressed sunflower oil to suggest a cleaner, more natural snack. You’ll find this product in shopping carts on quick grocery runs, in family snack stashes for school lunches, and on the coffee table during low-key get-togethers. The target demographic is the health-conscious mainstream shopper and parents who want a perceived healthier swap for classic chips: urban and suburban consumers attracted to convenience with a modest wellness halo. Labeling emphasizes veggie ingredients, simple-sounding components and a narrative of “less guilt,” but there is no organic certification listed and the packaging style reads like a conventional processed snack. In plain terms, these sticks are an industrially produced, reconstituted vegetable and starch snack — made from potato/corn/rice flours and powders formed into airy, crunchy sticks and fried or cooked in sunflower oil. Sensory experience is a light, brittle crunch with a clean sea-salt finish and subtle tomato/greens notes rather than strong vegetable bite; the texture is airy and crisp rather than fibrous. Rituals include munching straight from the bag, packing in lunchboxes, or pairing with dips at casual gatherings. Visually and verbally the product sits between indulgent chip culture and a healthier-snack positioning common in American grocery aisles.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1.0 oz
Servings per Container: 7
Calories140
% Daily Value*
Total Fat8g10%
Saturated Fat1g5%
Sodium210mg9%
Total Carbohydrate18g7%
Dietary Fiber1g4%
Protein1g
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:, EXPELLER, PRESSED, SUNFLOWER, OIL,, POTATO, FLOUR,, POTATO, STARCH,, CORN, STARCH,, RICE, FLOUR,, SEA, SALT,, TOMATO, POWDER,, SALT,, POTASSIUM, CHLORIDE,, SPINACH, POWDER,, TURMERIC..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • sunflower oil - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
No Seed Oil

Dietary Labels

This product is vegan, is gluten-free, and is not organic.

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:4 / 4

Ultra-Processed

Why this score?

Made from reconstituted potato/corn/rice flours and vegetable powders, prepared with industrial processing and added cooking oil, it fits the NOVA ultraprocessed category. The product is an industrially formulated snack rather than a minimally processed whole food.

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Common Questions about Eatsmart Sea Salt Garden Veggie Sticks

Well, 'healthy' can be a bit of a moving target, right? These veggie sticks are lower in sugar and free from added sugars and preservatives, making them a crunchy snack option that’s better than many traditional chips. They’re great for a quick snack, but remember, they’re not a substitute for whole veggies!

Perfect For

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movie-night
road-trip

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