SANTA ANNA’S - Organic Corn Chips - 250g

Santa Anna’s corn chips are hand cut from tortillas, and fried in de-flavoured coconut oil. This versatile snack can be devoured on the go, as a hearty at home snack such as Nachos, or just paired with some saucy salsa and home-made guacamole – gees!

To unlock the nutrients in the corn, Santa Anna’s soak it in calcium hydroxide, produced from natural limestone, which changes the structure of corn through the ancient Mesoamerican process of nixtamalization.

They process the resulting nixtamal (corn cooked in lime water) the same way that it has been done for the last 4000 years: grind it with volcanic stones to produce masa (corn dough), turn the masa into tortillas, and hand-cut them before frying them into our golden corn chips.

The final touch is lightly seasoning the chips with Oryx Desert Salt.Oryx Desert Salt

Ingredients:

Organic Corn, Calcium hydroxide, de-flavoured Coconut Oil.

More about Santa Anna’s corn chips:

Made from organic corn, which is naturally gluten free, high in fibre and lower in carbohydrates than wheat.

The corn is processed with calcium hydroxide (Nixtamal Process) which helps your body to experience less problematic digestion, and a generally better functioning inner digestive system as well as more energy.

Science has found that the infusion of the calcium dioxide in corn frees the niacin in the plant, making the vitamins and nutrients in the corn absorbable in the body.
Niacin has shown to reduce bad cholesterol and enhance ones good cholesterol, while improving digestion, metabolism, cell repair and has even shown a purifying effect against cancers in the body.

Through the nixtamal process, the alkaline that occurs can also reduce the amount of the protein zein in the body, improving essential amino acid balance.
Corn naturally contains Thiamin (vitamin B1), Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), Folate and Vitamin C.

Secondary benefits can increase calcium (by 750%, with 85% available for absorption), iron, copper and zinc.