New Pringles are only good for laugh

Pringles Multigrain. Truly Original, Creamy Ranch, and Cheesy Cheddar. $1.79 per 6.73-ounce tube.

Bonnie: I giggled when I saw these tubes of Pringles Multigrain. Don't for a second believe that these fatty, salty, uni-shaped chips will provide you with even a partial serving of whole grains, or that they're more nutritious than regular Pringles in the screaming yellow packages.

These Pringles do contain multiple grains — they'd have to with their name. But that's rice flour, corn flour and wheat starch — grains, all right, just not whole grains with all their famed goodness.

These Pringles Multigrains contain long lists of unpronounceable ingredients, where regular Kettle or even Lay's potato chips contain only potatoes, oil and salt. Those are what I'd suggest to satisfy your chip hunger; these are good only for a laugh.

Carolyn: In ridiculousness, Pringles Multigrain crisps are right up there with multigrain doughnuts. I mean, we are talking about a product so fake-seeming that back in the 1970s the potato chip-maker trade association got the FDA to stop Pringles-maker Procter & Gamble from calling Pringles potato chips, thus giving their snack a bad name. Pringles do actually contain potatoes, albeit double-processed ones (first as dehydrated potato flakes, then as snack crisps).

These new multigrain flavors also contain grains, albeit ones with no health benefits, just grains' weird chewiness. At least they don't taste wheaty. The Creamy Ranch with its hide-all-sins powder tastes best, although regular Pringles in all their many flavor varieties is better.

Seapoint Farms Edamame. Soybeans in Pods, and Shelled Soybeans. $4.89 to $5.39 per box containing six, 5-ounce frozen steam bags.

Bonnie: Country singer Faith Hill snacked on them during a Country Music Television interview; Kelly Ripa sang their virtues on "Live With Regis and Kelly." Yes, edamame — fresh soybeans — have gone mainstream.

Seapoint Farms has now made it easier for you to incorporate edamame into your daily eating with its new individual steam-and-eat snack packs. One variety has fresh soybeans still in the pod; the other, already shelled beans. Either is highly nutritious because edamame are rich in calcium, iron, zinc, many B vitamins, essential fatty acids, fiber and even protein. Like meat, fish and eggs, edamame's protein is complete, meaning it contains all the essential amino acids that our bodies can't produce.