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Um, I LOVE KALE CHIPS. I seriously stayed up late last night making these! I use my dehydrator instead of the oven so I let them cook over night on 105 degrees. And ironically I have to ration the amounts my daughters eat or THEY EAT THEM ALL WHEN I’M NOT LOOKING!
Thanks for sharing! For a non-dairy cheesy taste, try a couple TBSPs of Nutritional Yeast. We love them that way!
That’s the MOST healthy way to make these kale chips, because the temperature is not so hot that it kills the enzymes and other nutrients. Thanks Emili!
Love kale chips too. Thanks for the reminder. I’m going to go out and buy some kale soon.
Instead of salt, I put a little soy sauce over them. Love it.
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They are only less damaging for you than regular potato chips but they are not “healthy” for you. All of those good nutrients are baked right out. 200 degrees F for an hour will destroy so many nutrients that weren’t designed to exist in that intense environment.
Hate to be a buzz kill, but science is not telling people these facts – no one is telling people these facts and as a result we continue to damage vital nutrients in our whole foods.
I appreciate the reminder, Oliver. Yes, I know that at this temperature the kale will not retain it’s enzymes and other life-giving properties. Half the temperature (100 degrees) is more ideal. I will add a note
It is important to note that with all plants and animals, once they are dead, (pulled from the earth, plucked from a tree, killed in a barn, or shot from the sky, or hooked from the water etc.) they are in decay mode.
The first stage of decay mode is the natural breaking down of nutrient molecules (proteins vitamins etc.) – until the entire thing finally decomposes, bio degrades. This is why every other species knows to get their foods into their bodies and their babies bodies right quick after a kill is made.
Our vegetables thus are in decay mode to begin with and time is critical – doing anything other than popping them right into your mouths, is further challenging what may be left of nutrient molecules in your whole foods.
Having them sit around in a tray at any temp, even room temp is allowing for more precious nutrient molecules to break up.
Again, sorry for being a party pooper but so many people complain or suffer from vitamin and protein deficiency yet wonder why. They feel they eat wholesome good foods etc, yet they still can’t wonder why – it is because we take optimum food stuffs and degrade their nutrient value by having them hang around or by doing some other unatural act to them (baking).
I love burgers and all kind of chips (blue corn and sweet potato are my fav) but I enjoy them purely for flavor and texture while fully understanding they lack all the nutrients that are falsely listed on the labels
Ok, but what about someone like me who’s allergic to raw fruits and veggies (as in “throat swells shut and a I can’t breathe” allergic). Therefore, I have to do SOMETHING with them to make them so I can eat them, be it cooking or lacto-fermenting, … .
Yikes! I recommend you investigate something called “NAET” allergy treatment for those types of allergies. It really worked for me, taking down my allergies by about 85%. I go in for booster treatments about twice a year now for severe hayfever and food allergies (which aren’t near so severe anymore).
Leani – I once knew of a person whose medical team determined that he can have no (as in zero)raw food products in their body or else! (insert image of skull and cross bones here).
I thought to myself, how tragic that we have got to a state with our medical industry that many feel only man made chemicals must be the way to go.
Allergies are every species’ way of telling them that that particular natural food group is not for them – peanuts, wheat, in your case many fruits and veggies (I say “many” because I don’t know if you’ve tried every plant and fruit on earth and had a problem with each of them. ???)
At the end of the day, your body will really be in trouble, in the long run, if your are existing on solely cooked foods.
You can get minerals from pills etc, but vitamins, which are molecules (a collective of atoms – Carbon, Hydrogen, etc.) are not so easily transferable from a plant to a pill or powder. Those pills and powders are the most suspect and i strongly recommend agaisnt wasting your time and money.
As for allergies – there are treatments, naturally, that exist wherein one can build up a resistance to the toxic elements which are in each and every plant and fruit on earth. Start small until you can build up a natural resistance – start with some new type of fruit and have the tiniest portion – an 1/8 of a teaspoon of some new fruit or something.
Then it comes down to finding those few fruits and veggies which do the least or no damage at all. And stick to that. Each and every other species does this. They don’t go around eating every plant on earth. They have learned over millions of years what works for their respective species and what doesn’t. Many herbivorous animals walk right passed poison Ivy and other plants that don’t agree with them. – they don’t boil it to make it more digestable or “safe” – they just move on. If they are left with only one thing out of many plants to eat for their rest of days then that is what they do.
As you know many animals just eat the one grass – and are fine for the rest of their lives – that and water.
Humans are all over the place and we no longer no what we used to eat millions of years ago. And of course we have spread out from africa over the years so that has impacted the variety of things we can “try out”. This is not so much the case with the other species. The ant in nigeria seeks out the same type food stuffs, nutrients, as does the ant in pittsburg.
I’ve never tried kale. I may have to give this a try.
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I’ve also never tried Kale, but I hear great things about it. This seems like a great simple way to give it a try. I hope you’ll come share at our healthy food link party. http://www.youngnesters.net/2012/09/snacktime-saturday-week-1.html
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It’s not anything I would have even thought about trying, but you sure have me curious. And, they would be very healthy as well.
We love kale chips. Whether the nutrients are baked out or not, it beats most of the pre-packaged crap most people buy. And it helps develop a taste for more bitter foods. Plus, you gotta do SOMETHING with all that kale from the CSA! LOL!! I can only handle so many smoothies.
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Amen sister!
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I love Kale Chips. Thank you for sharing this at my Make it Pretty Monday party. This week’s party is now open. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-it-pretty-monday-week-14.html Hope to see your prettiness again. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHous
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These look fabulous!! I just love kale chips. Thank you for sharing with us on AFW.
I like this recipe better then the roasted versions. I have wanted lemon ones but could not figure out how to do it. Thanks
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This is marvelous! I was just introduced to this by my daughter – she and her husband love Kale Chips! I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
Kathy
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These sound excellent! I will say though, one thing that has always bothered me when people talk about healthy foods and cooking the nutrients out is that there is no point in worrying about preserving the plant’s enzymes.
Once the food we eat hits our stomachs, the acidic environment and our own enzymes degrade the enzymes in our food into chains of amino acids, no different from the chains we would get by eating veggies cooked at high temperatures or just meat.
Basically, every biology, nutrition, and medicine course I have taken says that the only important change we should expect from cooking our food is the killing of harmful bacteria (and I suppose carcinogens if you eat the burnt-to-a-crisp part, which, sadly, I love). Although I’ll admit that I can’t say this for sure with vitamins; I guess I could believe they may be available in a more easily absorbed form or more useful form when consumed “raw”.
Ww love kale chips! We will be including this in our features of appetizers recipes on the Gallery of Favorites tomorrow.
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Kale chips are such a deliciously healthy snack. Thank you for sharing this tutorial with us at The Gallery of Favorites. I can’t believe I haven’t tried them yet – I must remedy that soon
They’re delicious and easy to make, but “healthy” is not one of their traits.
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Jenni, We love Kale chips at our house! There is a great recipe on my blog…With a video of my pickiest child just munchin’ them down! I dehydrate the kale at 105…keeping all the enzymes in tact.
Thanks for sharing, it is wonderful! I like the recipe very much! It looks easy to cook!