Banana Chips - Homemade With A Food Dehydrator

Banana chips are a great tasting, healthy snack that can be easily made with a food dehydrator. Banana chips' basic ingredients should consist of:

ripe or slightly overripe fruit if desired, lemon or lime juice

Dried Fruit

To make these chips: Peel the fruit and cut them crosswise into about 1/4 inch thick chips. If desired, before dehydrating, you can dip the sliced fruit into lemon or lime juice to help prevent browning post drying. If the bananas are pretreated with citrus juice, make sure they are well drained and dried before placing them in the food dehydrator. Dry the bananas at 130 degrees Fahrenheit for up to 8 to 10 hours. The dried fruit should feel dry and leathery when done.

Homemade banana chips are a wholesome, healthy, 100% fruit snack that are easy and fun to make. They are very sweet and have an intense fruit flavor due to the food's reduced water content which intensifies the fruit's natural sugars.

In contrast to homemade chips, store bought dried bananas are typically deep fried in unhealthy oils, like coconut or palm oils. These oils contain high amounts of saturated fats. Further store bought chips can be covered with additional sugars or honey. In fact, nutritional guidelines list a 3 ounce serving of fried chips as containing 44% of the daily recommended amount of fat and 123% of the daily recommended amount of saturated fat.

To recap:

Homemade banana chips - 100% fruit, 100% natural ingredients and sugars

Store bought banana chips - Fruit, but also unhealthy saturated fats and added sugars

Go with the real thing - homemade dried bananas made with your food dehydrator.

Banana Chips - Homemade With A Food Dehydrator

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