Lay's Lightly Salted a healthy innovation

Lay's Lightly Salted. $3.50 to $3.99 per 10.5-ounce bag.

Bonnie: I like Frito-Lay's current focus on producing products with better nutritional profiles. From its TrueNorth nuts to its Baked! and Sun Chips lines and its sadly defunct Miss Vickie's Nine Grain Simply Salted Chips (which I truly liked), this company has been trying (and often succeeding) to make healthier snacks.

These new Lay's Lightly Salted potato chips are a tasty addition to the company's health-product push. There's enough salt on these lightly salted chips to be completely satisfying. One serving contains only 90 milligrams of sodium, or about half of the original Lay's. That's also less sodium than in a slice of white bread.

I also like that these chips contain only potatoes, oil and salt — nothing else. As with all snacks, just be sure you nibble in moderation, as the sodium won't be so low if you finish the bag.

Carolyn: American culinary school students spend most of their class time trying to master the dishes and kitchen techniques of foreign countries. But I would argue that America's greatest contributions to the world table are such simple (some, like Bonnie, might say junk!) foods as potato chips, french fries, peanut butter, pizza and hot dogs.

This insight was inspired by trying Lay's Lightly Salted. The snack chips we usually try for this column are typically souped-up with new ingredients, textures and/or flavors that often take center stage. To create these new Lay's, Frito-Lay has instead taken something away — in this case, sodium.

The result is that they taste more like potatoes than salt. Although slightly less addictive, they're still delicious. For me they are also a great reminder of what a simply wonderful treat the plain old American potato chip is.

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