Top 15 Vegan Chips, Ranked From Healthiest to Most Indulgent
If you’re craving something salty and crunchy for your movie nights or lazy days, there are tons of vegan chips to choose from! However, not all vegan foods are healthy. Whether you want to enjoy some guilt-free snacks or go all-out with a devilishly indulgent treat, you’ll find it all in our list! Keep reading to discover the perfect vegan chips for any occasion!
Popchips Perfectly Salted Vegan Corn Chips
The healthiest chip on our list was Popchips’ salted corn chips — a super healthy alternative to your average corn chip. It has less half the fat found in the leading brand, at just 4g! For just 120 calories per serving, you can enjoy more of these natural corn chips, guilt-free! In fact, its only ingredients are corn flour, corn starch, sunflower oil, and salt.
Beanfields Cheddar Sour Cream Bean Chips
Made with ultra-clean base ingredients like navy beans, brown rice, safflower/sunflower oil, and seasoning, Beanfield’s chips are an excellent choice for your movie nights at home! Pair with some pico de gallo or guac for an extra special treat. And the best part, it provides 4g of protein per serving! Just keep in mind it contains some palm oil (it is RSPO Certified).
Terra Exotic Harvest Sea Salt Vegetable Chips
Lower-fat and made with simple, plant-based ingredients, including kabocha, blue potatoes, and carrots, Terra’s exotic vegetable chips are ultra-clean! With 6g of fat, 2g of protein, and 3g of fiber, these chips are will be a great addition for your pantry.
Enjoy Life Dill & Sour Cream Lentil Chips
Like all Enjoy Life products, this brand’s lentil chips are made with the super simple ingredients! And at just 6g per serving, it’s a snack you can enjoy with confidence. Just watch out for your sodium intake! At 340mg per oz, it’s the saltiest on our list.
Simply7 Sea Salt Quinoa Chips
These quinoa chips are incredibly crunchy and addictive! Plus, it boasts a pure, simple recipe of just seven ingredients: quinoa flour, potato starch, corn starch, sunflower/safflower oil, corn flour, sugar, and sea salt. Although it’s going up the scale in fat content at 7g per serving, it’s still well within what most would consider a healthy vegan snack for movie night!
Garden of Eatin’ Grain Free Everything Seasoning Chips
At 8g of fat, these chips are a bit more indulgent, although we love that they contain chia and sunflower seeds, which provide tons of healthy fats. We love a snack that provides essential nutrients as well as incredible flavor! They’re also much lower in sodium than most on our list — just 95mg.
Plant Snacks Vegan Cheddar Cassava Root Chips
These grain, gluten, soy, dairy, corn, and tree nut-free chips are perfect for those who suffer from allergies! They instead use cassava flour as their base, which is naturally free from the most common allergens. And great news — all of their other snacks are vegan, too!
Forager Project Cheezy Greens Organic Leafy Green Chips
We love how natural and loaded with plant goodness these chips are! The greater the plant variety, the better. This one snack is made up of more than 11 grains, legumes, and leafy greens! We’d pushed it down the list because it contains palm oil, but it’s important to note that the oil they source is Rainforest Alliance Certified.
Good Health Kettle Olive Oil Cracked Pepper Potato Chips
It’s amazing how pure and simple these chips’ ingredients are! Made with potatoes, olive oil, black pepper, and sea salt, these Good Health potato chips are an incredibly natural choice. It even contains 400mg of potassium and just 75mg of sodium (the lowest on our list)! Just watch out for the fat content — 9g per 1oz. serving.
Late July Bacon Habanero Tortilla Chips
Heading into indulgent territory, we have Late July’s vegan Bacon Habanero Tortilla Chips! Although not made with the cleanest ingredients, it contains just 7g of fat and 130 calories per serving. If you’re craving something a bit more savory and interesting, these are the chips for you!
Kettle Brand Korean Barbeque Potato Chips
Another super creative and indulgent choice, Kettle Brand’s potato chips contain fairly natural ingredients, although a bit higher fat content, at 8g per serving. For a fun flavor to switch up your regular weekend snacks, give these vegan Korean BBQ chips a try!
Hippeas Rockin’ Ranch Tortilla Chips
At 9g of fat and 240mg of sodium, we have to categorize these chips in the ‘somewhat naughty’ list. However, they do contain 3g of protein and clean, organic ingredients! If you miss ranch-flavored snacks on your plant-based diet, these are the chips to go for!
Vegan Rob’s Potato & Sorghum Dragon Crisps
A surprisingly indulgent choice, Vegan Rob’s Dragon Crisps contain 9g of fat per serving. They also contain a few controversial ingredients, like mono-and diglycerides, and malic acid. However, as the name implies, they are totally vegan, and incredibly delicious! The perfect choice for vegans who miss their spicy snacks!
Taco Bell Mild Tortilla Chips
Nearing the top of the naughty list, Taco Bell’s vegan Mild Tortilla Chips are bold and indulgent! They’re also Kosher and gluten-free. Enjoy with moderation, knowing no animals were harmed to create this product.
Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Tortilla Chips
Finally, the beloved Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos! While many vegans adore the fact that their former favorite chip brand has a plant-based option, this snack made the bottom of our list for its not-so-great ingredient list. In fact, some are so tricky, like the ‘caramel color’ or ‘natural flavor’, that we can’t confirm it’s 100% vegan-friendly. However, they’ve become a staple within the vegan community. If you don’t have access to the other snacks on our list, this is a delicious and incredibly addictive option!
Regardless of whether you go for the nutritious low-fat option, or a more indulgent snack, we thank you so much for keeping our animal friends in your heart and mind in everything you do! Our planet and the animals both benefit incredibly from your conscious, ethical decisions. We wish you the most perfect movie night, lazy day, or special event — Enjoy!