Review: Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs

With type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, it can be tough to find a snack that satisfies that crunch craving. By chance, I recently came across the Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs in Coles.

These snacks are designed for kids and come in small quantities, but even so, the 10 gram pack was a satisfying snack for adults.

Ingredients

Red Lentil Flour (80%), High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Salt & Vinegar Seasoning (Rice Flour, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Natural Flavour, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Diacetate), Anticaking Agents (Magnesium Carbonate, Silicon Dioxide), Vinegar Powder (0.1%)).

Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs Nutrition Facts

Moderate in carbs: Most chips are high in overall carbs while being low in fibre and protein. The Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs carbohydrate content for the small snack pack is 4.5 grams, which for a crunchy snack is perfectly suitable for people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.

Satisfying protein: For the small snack pack you’ll stack up 2.2 grams of protein, which is pretty great! Protein makes foods more satisfying.

Good fibre: 1.3 grams of fibre is a decent amount for a small snack.

Gluten free: another great advantage!

Eating Experience

Shape and feel: the shape of the puffs is just like a cheese puff with it’s long oblong-like shape. The puffs themselves are quite large and make a good one-by-one eating experience, rather than a shove-in-your-mouth-all-at-once snack. This is obviously good since your experience will last longer and your appetite will be more satisfied. 

Great crunch: ‘Crunch’ is often something people with type 2 diabetes on a low carb diet are looking for in a snack and they definitely satisfy the crunch craving, both in mouthfeel and sound. It was also fun to enjoy a mouthful of tasty ‘crumbs’ at the end, left in the bottom of the pack.

Fun pack: the Mighty Bellies pack gives you a bit of light entertainment as you crunch as you can read the company’s positive ethos and ‘Be Mighty!’

Taste: I tried the ‘Salt and vinegar’ flavour and if you can recall, when you eat a pack of salt and vinegar chips you often get that real ‘zing’ when you have your first chips. The flavour of these puffs was not like that, and granted, I was expecting a little more zing at first. But in saying that, the flavour was still good, mild yet tasty and did not leave any bad aftertaste either.

Overall Thoughts and Recommendations

Since we encourage a low carb diet, high amounts of beans and legumes are not recommended because they are predominantly made up of carbohydrates. But, beans and legumes are a relatively good source of protein and they provide fibre, which does help to balance out their nutrition. In small quantities beans and legumes make a great addition to most diabetes diets, even when eating low carb. 

On a food label, the foods listed first are the highest amount found in the food, so for these it’s lentils and high oleic sunflower oil. This is great because many foods use lower quality vegetable oils, which aren’t as healthy. Overall, the Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs contain a short list of recognisable ingredients. Okay, the seasoning ingredients might not be ideal but in a packaged food, you rarely get “ideal.”

Overall, DMP give the Mighty Bellies Lentil Puffs a ✅ – they provide a balanced snack, one that is especially satisfying for that crunch craving you might get, while being an appropriate amount of carbs that it won’t push your blood sugar over the edge!

Where to buy: Coles 

*DMP did not receive any money to do this review.