There isn’t any flour in potato chips. They aren’t empty calories either. There is an enormous amount of nutrients in potatoes, far from being empty calories.
The reason potato chips are bad for you isn’t the potato. It’s the oil they are cooked in and the amount of salt.
Compared to the amount of calories in a potato chip, and what they do to the potatoes to make it…. They’re pretty damn close.
Are they better than nothing? Sure. But not something you can survive on for even a few weeks.
In any case I was speaking to saltines being mostly flour. (There might be some additives, possibly a leavening agent. There’s also water to make the dough but that baked out.)
If the reason for the restrictive diet is an upset stomach, saltines are going to be less offensive to that stomach than potatoe chips.
There isn’t any flour in potato chips. They aren’t empty calories either. There is an enormous amount of nutrients in potatoes, far from being empty calories.
The reason potato chips are bad for you isn’t the potato. It’s the oil they are cooked in and the amount of salt.
Compared to the amount of calories in a potato chip, and what they do to the potatoes to make it…. They’re pretty damn close.
Are they better than nothing? Sure. But not something you can survive on for even a few weeks.
In any case I was speaking to saltines being mostly flour. (There might be some additives, possibly a leavening agent. There’s also water to make the dough but that baked out.)
If the reason for the restrictive diet is an upset stomach, saltines are going to be less offensive to that stomach than potatoe chips.