Food scientists cook up healthier chips that don't taste awful

Microwave Vacuum Drying, or MVD, may be a real MVP for snack foods. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's hard to stop after eating a single potato chip --and that's kind of their whole problem. The deep-fried, popular salty snack is loaded with unhealthy fats, oils, and other unwanted ingredients that are linked with numerous health problems. Unfortunately, those are also the flavor profiles humans are evolutionarily wired to crave.