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Best Snacks Made with Avocado Oil: The Complete No Seed Oil Guide (2026) If you're looking for the best snacks made with avocado oil, here's the short version: your top options include Jackson's sweet potato chips, Siete tortilla chips, Boulder Canyon potato chips, Kettle Brand kettle chips, and AshaPops popped water lily seeds. That last one is worth paying attention to. AshaPops is the only popped water lily seed snack on the market made with avocado oil, and it fills a category (puffs and popped snacks) where almost every other brand still relies on sunflower or canola oil. Below, I'll break down every major avocado oil snack brand by category, compare the oils head-to-head, and help you pick the right...

Best Healthy Popcorn Alternatives (Ranked for 2026) The best healthy popcorn alternatives include popped water lily seeds (makhana), roasted chickpeas, kale chips, edamame, seaweed snacks, and pumpkin seeds. If you want the shortest answer: popped water lily seeds from AshaPops are the closest match to popcorn's crunch and satisfaction, with fewer calories, less fat, zero top-8 allergens, and no seed oils. I've tested dozens of options over the past two years, and nothing else checks every box the way makhana does. But popcorn isn't bad. Let me be clear about that. Air-popped popcorn is a whole grain with decent fiber. The problem is what most people actually eat: microwave popcorn loaded with butter flavoring, seed oils, and sodium. Or movie...