What you eat is what you become. Ever heard that one? You may have. But today, we are besieged by times where one is expected to put a bit of mind and purpose to one of the most common and incessant habits- snacking. Eating wisely is no longer a propagation, rather a new trend that’s likely to stay long, really long.
Healthy eating is in and the junk is out. You’d rather want your tastebuds attracted to something that’s not only filling but also a bit entangled with a goodness if not completely replete with benefits. In the great surge to be healthy and therefore, eat healthily, even the concept of snacking has undergone a sea change.
While snacking does constitute a sort of recklessness in the sense that there’s no real purpose attributed to it, even this harmless activity can be backed by a positive impact for one’s health. Isn’t it? We might still be in a time mired by an excessive gym-going culture, one that is defined by a proclivity for health fads. But it’s equally important that our diet constitutes the nutrition that is needed for keeping fit, isn’t it?
Recently, at a revered global symposium aimed at presenting and discussing rising, important health snacks and gourmets from around the world- one was glad to find some popular healthy snacks that may or may not be that popular in the rest of the world.
Here are 5 important healthy snacks that were presented at the said show in the United States and that are backed by a newfound nutritive element, ever a rising power of snacks one finds today.
Healthy Cauliflower Snacks
Chips and ruffles and that exciting crispy taste. What is that was backed by a nutritive value? That would be, then, such a win-win, isn’t it? One of the snack items that are yet to become “massy” in Asia is the Cauliflower snack. Pretzels are anyways a yummy component of our binge-eating, isn’t it? Then to have a cauliflower element in it to heighten the nutritive component does make sense.
Mushroom snacks
Alright, now this one is indeed out of the cuff. One of the most polarised of all food items, there’s never really a bad time to eat a mushroom, which has been debated for the longest time possible on whether or not it does have vitamins. In a chewy, jerky-like form, having mushrooms is good fun especially as a snack. And above all, to have a mushroom-based snack is a tantalising and hitherto-rarely seen option and looks like one may not have enough reasons to budge this choice.
Red vine cinnamon-roll twisties
How about that! Did you see such a snack coming? All the world’s a vineyard of our imagination and one where we hardly have time to ‘chew’ on anything interesting. So about some vine cinnamon roll twisties? At least 2 decades ago, none would’ve imagined that the food industry would reach such commanding levels of innovation that we would be having a vine-based snack. That’s healthy shock value, right there.
Blueberry maple smoked meat-stick
Anyone who’s heard about the blueberry maple smoked meat-based stick would be driven to hold one’s hair. What on earth is this snack about? Upon a single, simple bite of this new element of a jugular vein kind of snack- and you understand it’s really like a sausage and pancakes in a stick form. But then, that’s delectable enough not to have. Wondering why? Who wouldn’t want to have some protein-based snack to munch on?
Jelly Belly Candy Cones
Alright, so this isn’t the healthiest snack to have after all. But, at the same time, when was the concept of snacking always tied to health benefits. Not always. Not even in this evolved part of the 21st century where food reviews and vlogs on food hold as much importance as the new Senate bill.
A yummy ‘I can’t keep away from this’ kind of snack, an ice-cream shaped in the form of a candy are two great reasons for indulgence. Moreover, a colour-coordinated flavour like chocolate, strawberry, orange is a little delightful treat for everyone.
Eating healthy is surely the key. Yet, at the same time, one wishes to have a little bit of taste in there as well. That’s something that can be ensured only by a range of delightful snacks that balance taste with nutrition.