I love Cuban food. I am sure some of you remember my recipe for Cuban Sandwiches on my blog. I am a pretty picky eater and I was unsure about trying plantains for the first time. I think I probably had to be coerced to try them. I ended up loving them. My favorite kinds of plantains are the chips. When I lived in South Florida, I happened to live pretty much across the street from my favorite Cuban restaurant that I ended up going to a few years earlier on vacation a couple times. The smashed plantains are good too, but not as good as the chips. That was my favorite thing to order from the Cuban restaurant with my Cubano. When I first fell in love with Plantain chips, I was living in Indiana. I remember going on a plantain chip hunt with my ex husband. We probably when to four Latino grocery stores before we found plantain chips back in 2004. So, when I had the opportunity to review some Turbana Plantain chips you knew I jumped on that opportunity. Turbana is a company that is based in South Florida, close to where I used to live. They make flavored plantain chips. They are a much healthier choice than the normal potato chips. They would be a better afterschool snack or even with Halloween coming up as a better alternative for Trick or Treaters. You know that your kids are going to end up with tons of candy, it would be nice if some people gave out some Turbana Plantain Chips, hopefully the garlic flavor for two reasons. The first reason is to ward off those vampires. #2 so I can eat them all.
When I received the Turbana plantain chips to try out, they seriously lasted a hour. I salivated at the thought of garlic plantain chips. I think that the company must have done their research on me and knew that garlic is one of my most favorite things to eat. Yeah, they were shoveled in my mouth by the handful. I was so sad when they were all gone. I had Noah, who gets his picky eater syndrome from me, try one. He thought the garlic ones were hot. I wasn’t too sad, I said to him, more for me then. I asked him if he wanted to try the regular plantain chips, I told him they weren’t hot, and he loved him. He said and I quote. Plantain chips are my most favoritest food. Noah doesn’t really eat any chips though so I am glad he loves plantains as much as I do. I felt good about giving Noah them because they have 30% less fat than potato chips and twice the flavor. I am sure someone out there is unaware of what a plantain is. I didn’t know for most of my life. It looks similar to a banana, but it doesn’t taste like one. It’s a tropical food, it is used a lot in Latino cuisine. It sounds different but we love them. So, from my picky eaters to yours, check out Turbana Plantain chips.
For more information please check out the Turbana Plantainchips website.
I received some samples of Turbana Plantain chips for my family to try out. All thoughts and opinions are our own.
