These New Quest Protein Chips Are Making Us Pro Protein

When you’re on a low-carb diet, it’s nearly impossible to find good salty crunchies. You look online and people will for real be like, “Have some celery or carrot sticks!” Like, yes. We’ve heard of vegetables—thanks for the help! What most people want is good ol’ fashioned junk food, but junk food that isn’t so junky they can’t eat it. And in my experience, Quest does a pretty good job of making junk food for people who are avoiding carbs. 

Their tortilla-style protein chips aren’t my favorite low carb, high protein chips, but they’re in the top three. They’re made with a “protein blend” that contains milk protein and whey protein. I prefer the protein chips made out of chicken breast and egg whites (which pains me to say), but these aren’t half bad, and they’re out in two new flavors: Pizza and Mexican Street Corn. I tried both of the new Quest flavors to tell you the pro(tein)s and cons. 

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Quest Tortilla Style Protein Chips Pizza

Pros: Quest chips are very heavily seasoned. If the chips themselves taste weird, you’d honestly never know. Mostly they’re flavorless, crunchy vehicles for flavor dust, and this pizza flavor dust is GOOD. This is the pizza dust you remember from ‘90s snacks. They’re giving Keebler Pizzerias and I love it. They taste like dehydrated tomato paste and Italian herbs, with just a hint of fennel seed to channel sausage. These chips are crunchy as hell and they definitely scratch that junk food itch better than a carrot stick. Oh, and they’re gluten free!

Cons: If you don’t like pizza flavored snacks—particularly fakey pizza-flavored snacks—you’re really going to hate these. And I recognize that the chip concept in general isn’t for everyone, but if carbs are off the table, you have to take what you can get! (And btw, you can get this at Walmart now, and at other stores nationwide starting in February.)

Credit: Quest

Rating:

8.5/10

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New Product!

Quest Tortilla Style Protein Chips Mexican Street Corn

Pros: Like the Pizza chips, these Mexican Street Corn chips are heavily seasoned, and this seasoning has a lot going on. Maybe I’m crazy or perhaps I’m just in a good mood for a change, but I swear you can taste pretty much every flavor you see pictured on the bag: sweet corn, cotija cheese, and lime…lots of lime. 

Cons: The lime flavor leans a little bit bath product-y. It’s not the zesty, bright lime flavor you find in Tostitos Hint of Lime; it’s powerful but rounder, almost like cooked lime. It’s weird, but I think it works with the cheese and corn flavors.

Credit: Quest

Rating:

7/10

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