Connie’s Tip: My New Snack Discovery

Quite often people ask me, "What’s a good snack to eat if I want to stay away from sweets? What can I have instead of a candy bar, potato chips or an ice cream cone?"

Generally, I’ll run down a list of some snacks that I love, but often, they’re not easy transportable.

Well, I just discovered the coolest snack. It’s called Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame.

For those of you in the dark about what I’m talking about, edamame — which the company calls "The Wonder Veggie ™" — is from the soy family.

What’s so wonderful about this snack is that:

  • You can pack it in your handbag, backpack or fanny pack and bring it on a plane or on a day of running around.
  • You don’t need to refrigerate it.
  • A quarter cup gives you such a wonderful balance — you get 14 grams of protein, 6 grams of fat, 9 grams of carb (of which 4 grams are dietary fiber) and a measly 1 gram of sugars (it’s naturally occurring.)
  • 1/4 cup is only 140 calories.
  • It’s a great source of protein — it even contains all 8 essential amino acids and adds no cholesterol or trans-fats to your diet, as the package notes. 
  • It’s also the only vegetable that’s akin to both meat and eggs in protein content.
  • It’s rich in calcium, iron, zinc and many B vitamins.
  • About the only minor drawback I can find is that the sodium content is higher than I’d wish — it’s 76 mg — but it’s not really only lightly salted — not like peanuts or many soy nuts.)
  • It’s a great source of soy protein — it even contains all 8 essential amino acids and adds no cholesterol or trans-fats to your diet, as the package notes.

    • Let me know if you like this unique snack! FYI, I don’t stand anything to gain — right now, at least — if you go out and buy this.

    Cool, I just discovered that Seapoint Farms has six different types of edamame, and unless they changed the recipe, it has no sugar.

    Bon appetit!

    4 thoughts on “Connie’s Tip: My New Snack Discovery”

    1. Edamame are just soybeans, picked a little early: immature soybeans. If you can find them fresh in the pod, they taste similar to firm lima beans. Sometimes they’re sold frozen in the pod. With both fresh and frozen, you just boil them with a little salt before eating.
      With all the soybean production subsidized by the government to make hydrogenated oil to fry up french fries, you’d think they could siphon off more of them to sell cheap as edamame.

    2. Right, Mark, cooked edamame taste very good, too — I think they’re a lot better-tasting than lima beans. Many Japanese restaurants carry them.
      The reason I pointed out this snack is that they’re packaged, dry, easy to transport, require no refrigeration and actually have some nutrients — quite unlike most packaged snack foods you like.
      Connie
      http://www.SugarShockBlog.com

    3. One small correction. They are not veggies. They are legumes, so they are vegetarian but not veggies. Also, you need to be careful of portion size. They are great, so great that the calories add up fast. But they are a tasty, healthy snack.

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