![]() ![]() ![]() McCain: Sweet Potatoes, Canola Oil, Sugar, Potato Starch - Modified Contains Less Than 2% or Less of Anatto (color), Corn Starch - Modified, Dehydrated Sweet Potatoes, Dextrin, Extractives of Paprika (color), Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Malt Powder (Malted Barley, Wheat Flour, Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Molasses, Natural Flavor, Rice Flour, Salt, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate Added to Maintain Natural Color, Xanthum Gum. Īlexia: Sweet potatoes, Canola oil and/or sunflower oil and/or safflower oil, rice flour, tapioca starch, cornstarch, dextrin, salt, dextrose, xanthum gum, leavening (disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), colored with turmeric and oleoresin paprika I'm not a chemist or a food scientist, just a home cook so my interpretations of the ingredients are. I really should have checked the labels beforehand, to know what I was getting into. Whew, I'd imagined a one-item ingredient list, you know, sweet potatoes but these long lists of ingredients sent on the hunt for definitions. I liked these slightly better, but it might have been the eye appeal of the crinkly fries. McCain: The same pros and cons applied here. They were pretty crisp, though not like fast-food fries, say. McCain: 35 minutes (including 15 minutes to preheat)Īlexia: Good enough, especially hot-hot from the oven, after that, soggy and unappealing. Sweet Potato Crinkle Cut Fries (pictured) from McCain, the $6 billion Canadian company known for frozen food productsĪlexia: 35 - 40 minutes (including 15 minutes to preheat the oven) Sweet Potato Julienne Fries from the privately held New York company Alexia which claims to be 'reinventing the frozen food category' This was entirely unintentional: I'd never heard of either company until I started writing this post, their products were the only two in my local supermarket, Schnucks. ![]() THE TASTE TESTS I baked up two different packages of frozen sweet potato fries, unknowingly setting up a David and Goliath smackdown. I was going to love these, readers were going to love them too! I cooked and ate them before looking any deeper. I imagined doing a post with three or four different spice mixes for sweet potato fries. I expected to extol the virtues of "convenient whole food" from the freezer, like peas or corn or broccoli or cauliflower or spinach. I gotta tell you, I was fully prepared to "love" these products. I was a late arrival so only a few scraps were left but even cold, the sticks of baked sweet potato were pretty tasty!įast Forward Three Months, as I set out to try frozen sweet potato fries for myself. THE BACKGROUND Last summer, my favorite busy mom brought sweet potato fries to a pool party. are made with a whole long list of "other" ingredients. have 50% to 68% more calories than fresh sweet potatoes roasted at home! are three to four times more expensive than fresh sweet potatoes! How do they taste? Are they worth the money? I suppose I shouldn't be shocked - shocked! - but I am. Today's product review: A look at what I thought was a promising development in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store, sweet potato fries. ![]()
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