Benefits of Chia Seeds: Five Reasons to Incorporate them Into Your Diet

Chia seeds are a super food that can provide many benefits to those who consume them on a regular basis. In fact, the peoples of South America (where chia seeds originate) have known the benefits of consuming chia seeds for hundreds of years, and they were even a staple in Mayan and Aztec diets. Today, they draw the attention of many health food junkies due to the benefits they can provide, as well as the various ways in which they can be used in cooking. While there are numerous benefits of consuming chia seeds, here are the top five reasons to eat them.

1. Great Source of Fiber: Consuming the proper amount of fiber is vital to one’s health, as fiber is associated with lowering cholesterol and regulating bowel function. Chia seeds are an excellent source of fiber, containing 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons, which is about one-third of the recommended daily fiber intake. Eating chia is thusly an easy way to incorporate more fiber into your diet.
2. Rich in Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Chia seeds are rich in unsaturated fats, especially omega-3 fatty acids. In fact, chia seeds are one of the richest plant based sources of omega-3s. Why is consuming omega-3 fatty acids important? Consuming these unsaturated fats can help to reduce cholesterol and can even help to enhance cognitive function.
3. Chia Seeds are Filling: Eating chia seeds helps one to feel full and satisfied after a meal. This helps to cut down on cravings and snacking in between meals. This can help with weight management, and can help to improve one’s overall health as it helps to prevent overindulging in unnecessary food.
4. They are Full of Minerals and Nutrients: Two tablespoons of chia seeds contains roughly 18 percent of the daily recommended intake of calcium, 24 percent for magnesium, and roughly fifty percent of the daily recommended intake of manganese. These nutrients can help to prevent high blood pressure (hypertension), and can help you to maintain a healthy weight by improving your metabolism.
5. Chia Seeds Help with Blood Sugar Regulation: Chia seeds can help those with diabetes by helping to regulate the insulin levels in their body. They do this by helping to decrease abnormally high levels of insulin in the blood.

Chia seeds truly are a super food that can provide many benefits to those who incorporate them into their diet. Contact us to find out about more of the amazing benefits of consuming chia seeds, as well as to find out ways you can incorporate them into your diet.

Help Whales Without Even Having to Put Down Your Gourmet Chips and Dips

You’ve probably wanted to do more to help whales, but maybe you found it difficult to find something you could do with your mouth full of gourmet chips and dips. Eating Whale Tail Tortilla chips is a good start, and the Whale Song Project at Scientific American will be like music to your ears, which is a lucky thing because your mouth is full and it couldn’t hear anyway.
All you have to do is visit Whale FM. They have more than 15,000 recordings of Killer Whales and Pilot Whales. You listen to a clip at the top of the page and look at a visual image of the pitch changes. Then, you click to match it with one of the samples listed at the bottom of the page.
For conservation purposes, it’s important for scientists to learn more about why and when animals make certain sounds. There is growing evidence that the increase in noise made by human activities is harming marine life. Findings from crowd sourced studies can help promote better regulations on activities like oil and gas exploration.
All this may even help you with getting a good job. You’ve probably seen headlines about robots replacing people at some companies. As it turns out, projects like this prove that humans are a lot better than robots at making visual comparisons. And we probably select better snack foods. Take that robots.
While you’re at it, fill in any pesky gaps on your resume by saying you worked with scientists to study whale communications and throw in fancy terms like spectrogram. Before you know it the interviewer will be asking you when you can start and wanting to know if you’re available so they can introduce you to their single friends.
Whale Tail Tortilla Chips makes healthy snacking and helping the environment taste so good. Contact us to try all three flavors.

Watching the Whales Go 'Round

Whale watching season is underway in San Diego! Each year, 20,000 eastern gray whales embark on the world's longest mammal migration, a 10,000 mile round trip from their summer home in the Bering Sea to their Baja California calving and mating grounds.
From late December through mid-April, naturists from the Birch Aquarium, home of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and proud vendors of Whale Tails Tortilla Chips, invite the public to join them on daily excursions to locate the magnificent gray whales. Ocean experts are on board to answer your questions about marine life as they point out not only whales, but seals, dolphins and sea lions.
On the Scripps blog, whale watching coordinator Audrey Evens calls the migration a parade:

...our passengers and naturalists observed gray whale mating behavior, females traveling with calves, breaching (leaping with much of the body out of the water) and spyhopping (raising the head above water to peek around).

and Birch Aquarium naturist Elizabeth Argyle explains the gray whales' diving pattern:

During their approximate 5,000-mile southward journey, gray whales demonstrate a unique behavior of 3-5 surface dives followed by a single deeper dive known as a sounding dive. Following each subsequent shallow dive, the whale surfaces and exhales.

Daily Flagship–San Diego Harbor Excursions depart at 9:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., lasting three and a half hours. Printable $5 discount coupons for the 2013-2014 season are available here.
If you love whale watching as much as we do, contact us and share your stories!

A Whale of a Surprise!

A Whale of a Surprise!

We all know that whales are amazing creatures. Their size coupled with their grace and beauty make them incredible animals to behold. But for all that you do know about whales, there are probably a few things that you don’t. Check out some of these surprising facts about our mammalian marine counterparts.
Surprising Fact #1: Just because it looks like a whale does not mean it is a whale. Yes, the orca, which is more commonly known as the killer whale, actually is not a whale at all- it is a dolphin. The orca is one of the largest species of dolphins measuring 25 feet in length and weighing over 12,000 pounds. Like its more widely known dolphin relatives, the orca is extremely intelligent. Orcas have been observed teaching very sophisticated hunting maneuvers to one another – much to the disappointment of the hunted, of course. And like dolphins, orcas crave social interaction and travel in groups called pods.   In fact, orcas form tight knit intergenerational family units where three or four generations may live together in a traveling pack.
Surprising Fact #2: Whales have big bodies and therefore they must eat big things. Not quite. Though some whales dine on other marine mammals, blue whale eat teeny tiny krill. Yes, krill. Try to picture feeding pieces of tic-tac sized morsels of meat to a 280 pound linebacker. Get the picture? Krill measures a measly 1 to 2 centimeters in length. The blue whale dines at the bottom of the ocean floor. They use a method known as filter feeding to gather its prey. Filter feeding means that the whale opens its mouth very wide and then swims about. Water flows into the whale’s mouth along with the krill. The whale then pushes the water out but the krill gets stuck in the comb-like teeth called baleen.  The whale is left with a mouth full of delicious krill to eat.
Surprising Fact #3: All whales are not gigantic. There is a species of whale known as the dwarf sperm whale that only measures 8.5 in length and weights a mere 550 whale pounds. Comparatively speaking, this is miniscule; the blue whale can grow to a massive 100 feet and weigh 300,000 pounds (150 tons). So this is like comparing a Mack truck to toy car. This petite whale can be found in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Now you know! We are proud to manufacture a product that celebrates the full-blooded whales and those whales who happen to be a distant cousin.   We hope you continue to share our love and admiration for these incredible creatures. Contact us to learn about our delicious non gmo project verified products.

Why Corn Chips Are More Healthy Than Flour Chips

Have you ever thought about the difference between flour tortillas and corn tortillas or the difference between flour tortilla chips and corn tortilla chips? There are some astronomical differences. Not only are corn tortilla chips much better for you, but they taste even better! Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are non-gmo project verified and come from organically grown corn. Here are some of the differences between a corn tortilla chip like ours and a regular flour based tortilla chip.

Calories

Corn tortillas typically have about 70 calories while flour tortillas usually have about 150. In other words: with corn tortilla chips, you can intake less than half the calories as flour tortilla chips.

Fat

Corn tortillas typically have 1 gram of fat versus 3.5 grams of fat in flour tortillas. 1.5 of those grams of fat in flour tortillas are saturated fat which is typically considered the worst kind for your diet.

Ingredients

Corn tortillas are typically only made from simple ingredients like water and corn flour. They are wheat and gluten free which are huge pluses. Meanwhile, one flour tortilla can amount to 20% of your daily sodium intake. Whale Tails Tortilla Chips, like most other corn based tortilla chips, are non-gmo project verified and organically grown from corn.

These are just a handful of the benefits of choosing corn tortilla chips over flour tortilla chips. However, besides being healthy, you'll know after trying some of our Whale Tails Tortilla Chips that these chips are more than healthy. They are delicious! And did we mention fun? Those two are the most important factors to include on any diet. These healthy snacks got it all so contact us today.

Mission Driven-Whale Tails Tortilla Chips

Mission Driven-Whale Tails Tortilla  Chips

You too can allow your snack chips to have a purpose. Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are snack foods with a mission and a purpose. These premium chips are invested in the purpose, to save the oceans. This is one of the only chip companies that are mission driven.

 The ocean is slowly being choked with pollutants of a man made variety. It is a fact that a staggering amount of waste enters the sea every year. This is something that has only been an issue for the past 60 years. Plastic bags, rings and man made pollutants now pollute our oceans. In addition to the pollutants added to the ocean on a daily basis, oceans are consistently over-fished leading to the possible depletion of all species by the year 2048. This would be a catastrophe for all those that rely on fish as a major source of protein.

Many people also rely on the oceans as a livelihood and find it to be their main source of income. This is the reason that oceans need to be completely protected.  Many people feel a need to do what they can to protect and save the seas.

Purchasing these chips is one of the ways you can enjoy a delicious snack that is designed to allow you to contribute toward saving the ocean in a most appetizing and health conscious way. Our chips are considered to be mission driven since much of the proceeds go to foundations entrusted with saving the ocean.

The best thing about our chips is that they are pure deliciousness with a purpose. Premium and healthy ingredients are used in our chips to make sure they are a delicious and nutritious fast food alternative. These chips allow you to take something as mundane as dips for chips and make it into a tasty alternative with a mission.

Those of us at Whale Tail Chips consider ourselves to be stewards of the sea, and devote a portion of our profits  toward ocean protection and conservation,contact us for ways to purchase these chips and contribute toward the well being of the seas.

Energize Your Little Athlete With Whale Tails Tortilla Chips

The school year is in full swing and that means fall sports are here for your youngsters and, as much as you hate to hear it, spring sports will be right around the corner. We know every kid, no matter the age, needs to keep their energy up to fully participate in their favorite sports. It's a lot to balance with a full school schedule-for you and them so let us make it a little simpler by recommending a healthy snack for you to keep your athlete energized and snacking at practice and throughout the day.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips come in individual packs perfect for snacking. The packs come with 24 bags so there's plenty to go around!

These chips aren't just tasty but they are healthy gourmet snacks as well! You have a lot to balance with sports and school so let us take care of watching your children's' diet. These chips are non gmo project verified, gluten free, full of chia seeds, organic and environmentally friendly. Much better than the other stuff you could be packing for that special athlete.

When it comes to sports this year, keep that athlete eating healthy and snacking with delicious Whale Tails Tortilla Chips which come in flavors like Blue Corn, Alaea gourmet Hawaiian sea salt, and Hawaiian Barbeque. They're as tasty as the other treats you would've packed, but a little healthier.

And if you're just sitting on the sidelines watching your favorite athlete and student perform then Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are perfect for you too. You can snack on healthy chips shaped like a whale's tail while watching the only game you really care about this season and what's better than that? Contact us today.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips Are Perfect for Any Gluten Free Diet

 Whale Tails Tortilla Chips Are Perfect for Any Gluten Free Diet

More information is available today about foods and diets than ever before. More and more people are educating themselves on what exactly is in foods and how their bodies are responding and why. Many have found that it is common for the human body to respond negatively to gluten and that a gluten free diet is one with many benefits to your health and body. The trouble can be finding affordable and tasty foods to eat when trying to cut gluten out of your regular diet. We have a perfect organic snack for you.

Gluten is a protein found in most wheat, barley and rye. New research has found that more and more people have an allergic or negative reaction to it. These negative reactions can lead to harmful symptoms like cancer and infertility. However, gluten is present in everything from pizza dough to many soups. The biggest issue with cutting gluten out of your diet is the fact that it is so prevalent and that it gives most foods that special touch that our taste buds love.

Many also agree that gluten can be bad for everyone, not just those sensitive to it. Gluten can contain everything from opioid peptide (found in highly addictive drugs) to irritating lectins (this prevents your body from absorbing minerals).

The point is that many agree gluten is bad and going gluten free is beneficial to most people. An organic diet may be the way to go.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips can help. It's a fun snack made from organic corn grown in the United States. The snack is gluten free and non- gmo project verified and a tasty and affordable treat for anyone looking to change their diet for the better.

You don't need to give up ALL the foods you love when you change your diet. Tortilla chips can still be in your diet and still be delicious with Whale Tails Tortilla Chips. There are great flavors like Hawaiian Barbeque and Blue Corn chips! They're delicious, healthy, fun, affordable and perfect for any occasion and diet! Gluten free never sounded so good! Contact us today.

Football Season is Here! Change it Up a Bit With a Healthy Snack

Football Season is Here! Change it Up a Bit With a Healthy Snack

Football season is here! That means Saturdays, Sundays, and even Monday nights will be occupied with the big games highlighted by our favorite teams, friends hanging out on our couches and lots of snacks while we watch. Nothing is better than good old chips and dip while watching the game. Here's a healthy snack to fit perfectly with your game day display.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips, first off, cover us in the health department. They are organic, gluten free, non gmo project verified and environmentally friendly among other benefits. In other words, if there was a chip to eat, these are the chips.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips also fit into the nature of game day perfectly. Our chips are fun and fit fun occasions very well. They are shaped like whale tails and there's nothing more fun than that when it comes to chips.

However, most importantly, these chips are great snacks. There's great flavors like Original Alaea Gourmet Sea Salt, Hawaiian Barbeque and Blue Corn. They taste even better than the salty and greasy potato chips that act as alternatives.

Plus, you can eat them with all your favorite dips whether they be salsa, cheese or whatever else! Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are a healthy and tasty replacement for potato chips on game day.

Make this football season a little different with Whale Tails Tortilla Chips. Contact us today.

Complete Your Holiday Parties with Whale Tails Tortilla Chips

With the fall here, the holiday season is just around the corner. It's almost time to start stocking up on snacks to wow your guests with for your Thanksgiving, Christmas or even Halloween get togethers. It's always a good idea to offer healthy snacks everyone can enjoy, but you also want to keep everything recognizable and tempting to all of your friends and family. What's more fitting for a get together or party than chips n dips?

With Whale Tails Tortilla Chips you can make that chip and dip plate healthy along with being delicious. Plus, Whale Tails Tortilla Chips fit all the criteria needed for any holiday party snack.

First, they are healthy. You and your guests shouldn't need to worry about having second helpings or their current diets. Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are non gmo, gluten free and made from organic corn. They are perfect for any diet. Family and friends can just focus on having a good time when this snack is around.

Second, they are delicious which is what every holiday party snack needs to be. With flavors like Hawaiian Barbeque and Blue Corn, everyone can find a chip to love.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips always fits the fun atmosphere of every party. They are shaped like whales tails and you can the tails up with any dip you desire! They are also a hot new item that can stir up discussion with your guests. Everybody's talking about Whale Tails Tortilla Chips so why not have your guests do the same!

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are the perfect selection for all of your holiday parties this year. Contact us today.

Keep it Real and Slim Over the Holidays

Fall is here and that means the holidays are right around the corner. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas will bring us together with friends, family and lots and lots of food. Coming off of a summer diet, most people plan to put on a few extra pounds over the holidays. Some go in with crazy diets and cave once they get a sight of the mashed potatoes and gravy or the cranberry sauce. Temptation is there. We all want to eat and snack and have laughs with our friends and family over the holidays without worrying about gaining extra weight. We can't solve all your problems this holiday season, but we can certainly help by introducing a healthy snack that is perfect to add to any holiday display.

Whale Tails Tortilla Chips are, first off, perfect for any of your upcoming holiday parties whether they be for Halloween, Thanksgiving or even Christmas! They're tortilla chips shaped like whales that you fill up with salsa! What's more fun than that!?

However, beyond the fun, Whale Tails Tortilla Chips can help with that other previously mentioned issue over the holiday season. We all like turkey and gravy and candy stolen from our children's Halloween buckets, but none of it is very flattering to our figures, but instead of putting yourself on an unrealistic diet over the tempting holidays just try adding a few healthy snacks to the mix to replace some of the more fatty and sugary foods you savor.

One of those healthy snacks is Whale Tails Tortilla Chips! These chips aren't just delicious and fun, but they are organic and non- gmo project verified meaning there's no guilt to infiltrate on that fun you plan on having laughing and catching up with family and friends.They also include chia seeds which have a whole list of healthy benefits to explore.

Keep the fun going this holiday season without feeling the usual guilt. Introduce Whale Tails Tortilla Chips to your holiday season and snack and snack while having all the unfiltered fun the holidays have to offer. Contact us today.

Our Oceans Help Us Fight Cancer

Once again, our oceans are proving to be a very valuable ally in our war against human illness.  As we continue to search for ways to create vaccinations that help us fight off life-threatening illnesses, nature can be a source of medical breakthroughs.  In this case, the Giant Keyhold Limpet, which is a marine animal similar to an Abalone, is being grown in captivity so that its blood can be harvested.  The blood harvested contains KLH (Keyhole limpet hemocyanin) which is a lot like human hemoglobin.  This is the substance in our blood that helps move oxygen around our bodies in the most efficient manner possible.
Limpets are rather delicate creatures and getting them to grow in captivity is a challenge.  Stellar Biotechnologies has built an unusual medical facility that is located right on the ocean at Point Hueneme in Southern California.  By building the facility so close to the sea, they are able to pump the nutrient-dense ocean water into their facility and into the tanks where the limpets live.  The difference here is that the limpets are not removed from their natural environment and killed in order to harvest their blood, instead the researchers here have figured out a way to harvest the KLH without harming the animals in the process.
By growing them specifically for this purpose the numbers of limpets in the wild will not be affected.  Now they can be "harvested" numerous times a year and by growing them in these controlled circumstances, the chance of cross-contamination is also greatly reduced.
KLH is a very important part of today's vaccines.  It works by attaching to much smaller amounts of the inactive virus contained in the vaccine and then helping our immune system "see" the virus and thereby helping the body to build antibodies much more quickly.  In the past, a vaccine might actually harm the recipient because, even with an inactive virus, the toxin is still present.  By lowering the amount of inactive virus used in vaccine, the chances of developing illness are reduced.  There is great hope that a cancer vaccine may be able to be developed that will never have a chance to harm the person that receives it.
With cancer the antigens that are produced are mostly made up of your own tissue.  The body does not recognize these antigens as something to be eradicated because the body only "sees" itself.  If KLH could be attached to those cancer cells they can help the body recognize the disease and then respond by building antibodies.  As researchers continue searching for a cancer vaccine they need a lot of KLH, so this facility at Point Hueneme may actually be partly responsible for the development of that vaccine in the near future.
The more we learn about the diversity in our planets oceans the more opportunity we have to find ways in which it can help us lead better lives. Here at Whale Tail Tortilla Chips we are also in the business of helping people lead better, and healthier, lives.  Contact us to find out where you can find us in your neighborhood.

Exploring the Many Benefits of Chia Seeds for your Health

Here in America, people tend to think of Chia seeds as something that are used to grow plants that resemble furry animals. The fact is that they have been included in Mayan and Aztec diets for centuries, not only because they have health benefits, but because they taste delicious as well. When you learn of some of the benefits of chia seeds, you may just want to try them for yourself.
Improves Heart Health-Chia seeds are high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are known to reduce bad levels of cholesterol in the body. These seeds are also high in dietary fiber, and may help to reduce fat stores around the heart, thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Antioxidants-Chia seeds help eliminate toxins from the body, and also help support healthy elimination
Rich in nutrients-In addition to high levels of protein, chia seeds also contain approximately 18% of your daily-recommended allowance of calcium, 35% of phosphorus, 50% for manganese, and 24% for magnesium.
Promotes weight loss-Consuming chia seeds on a daily basis is thought to help speed your metabolism, thereby enhancing your weight loss efforts. They also help to suppress the appetite, and the fact that they contain high levels of protein means that you are more likely to lose fat rather than muscle while you slim down.
Helps manage diabetes-A person’s insulin levels are easier to control whenever chia seeds are added to the diet. Regular consumption of chia seeds helps to reduce insulin resistance while also decreasing high blood glucose levels.
Eases arthritis suffering-Since chia seeds have anti-inflammatory properties, they are also beneficial to those who are suffering from arthritis. There is some evidence that they might help relieve some of the pain associated with this condition as well.
Increases energy-Chia seeds help boost energy levels naturally without leaving you feeling jittering or experiencing a “crash” some time later.
How to Eat Chia Seeds
Chia seeds are virtually tasteless; however, they do add texture to food, and are ideal for baking bread with. Other uses for them including sprinkling on cereal, ice cream, salads, vegetables or putting in smoothies.
If you’re looking for a fun way to include chia seeds in your diet, try our blue corn chips that are sprinkled lightly with them. To find out where to buy blue corn chips or any of our other flavors, contact us today.

Healthy Snacks Are the Way to Go This Summer

Summer. Best time of the year. The sun comes out, the beaches get warm, the waves get smooth and the bikinis come on display. It's nothing but fun for everyone. It's a whole lot of relaxing in the sun, eating food till your stomach can't hold anymore, travelling, getting a tan and meeting new friends.
All of these should be on everyone's to do list this summer. However, there is one thing we can all be switching up this summer to make it a little better. Besides the good waves, good friends and good travel, we all like good food right? The summer means breaking out the BBQ and chips and salsa and eating like kings. The last thing we want to think about are healthy snacks.
That is, unless they are Whale Tails Chips. Despite the extra physical activity of summer (surfing, hiking, etc.), we all know we can put on a few extra pounds and throw health to the wind when buying that extra big bag of chips or asking for that fourth burger.
With Whale Tails Chips, it's no worries and that's how summer should be. No worries. Not only are they a great and delicious gourmet snack, but they are non gmo and an organic snack. What else could you ask for? You get to snack while also being healthy? Now that's what I call summer!
It can be easy when falling into the groove of summer to let health become the least of your worries and just eat whatever comes in front of you, but why not make this summer a little better while still making it fun? Whale Tail Chips are delicious and perfect for BBQs, tailgate parties or just plain hanging with friends on the beach. They're delicious and healthy. They help make summer a little bit more healthy while also making it a little bit more fun.
If you want to have a fun summer in the sun and do it a little healthier this time then contact us today and you can enjoy not just that sun, but some great organic chips shaped like whale tails. See? Told you they were fun.

Take 'Chips n Dips' to the next level with WhaleTails!

Summer's now in full swing, which can only mean one thing for your next get-together: WhaleTail Tortilla Chips, perfect for scooping a fresh summer salsa.
Since these irresistible snacks are available in three tasty flavors, we're pairing them up with some refreshing salsas to create the ultimate chips n dips!
First up, grab a bag of "Alaea" Hawaiian Sea Salt chips and head over to Smitten Kitchen for Deb's quick and easy Cantaloupe Salsa.  The unique combination of sweet cantaloupe, spicy chiles, and fresh herbs are the perfect match for our lightly salted original recipe.
Looking to pair our Chia-infused Blue Corn chips? Search no furher than this classic Mango Salsa from the Food Network.  It's ready in a snap and packs a punch with jalapenos and lime.  This salsa is sure to strike the perfect note with WhaleTails Blue Corn!
Nothing says summer quite like our last scoop, tangy Hawaiian Barbeque with Tomatillo Salsa Verde from Simply Recipes.  Hearty roasted tomatillos and fresh cilantro create a lovely green salsa that takes our Hawaiian Barbeque over the top.  Wow your guests--and family!--with this unbeatable, spicy combo.
There's something for everyone with our three distinct WhaleTails flavors, but they also have something in common: high-quality ingredients.  And we know our customers can taste the difference.
With these tasty recipes and the WhaleTails you know and love, we're sure you'll find just the right match to spice up your summer!
As always, we invite you to contact us to learn more about our full range of naturally gluten-free, non-GMO, and Kosher snacks.

That Rare Moment You've Had With Whales .....Continued

That Rare Moment You've Had With Whales .....Continued

After pinning your empty Wyland art bag to your wall with the rest of your collage, you lay down on your bed, pondering. Wondering how, just how can you taste the signature flavor of Whale Tails chips again? The last five purchases were a flop, your friends keep stealing them! They searched your room and found your stash o' chips. Luckily you've been secretly training to be a parkour master in your apartment (the neighbors are excited).
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You walk in the store and look around, no familiar faces. So you proceed to the chip aisle and grab a bag, the last one! The purchase goes off without a hitch, but as you walk out the door: Johnny on the right, Timmy on the left. You bolt across the busy street playing real-life Frogger, only to meet Tommy and Smalls. Ducking into the the alley, bouncing off the wall onto the dumpster, and into an un-expecting older fellow's home really surprised your pursuers. The training has paid off. Apologizing, you bust out of his door into the hallway, and open the bag. A Whale Tails chip explodes with flavor in your mouth and your knees get weak as you slowly collapse to the corridor floor. You fall on your back, still crunching away in some type of euphoria, and drop the bag.
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Upon waking, you realize all the chips are gone, and the bag is a few yards down the hall. You get up to it and brush it off, only slightly scuffed. So you begin the walk of shame back to your apartment. Maybe, just maybe, next time, you'll get to eat 2 Whale Tails chips. How many times have you taken someones Whale Tails chips out of sheer chip hysteria? Let us know!

4 Reasons to Invite a Whale to Your Next Party

Everyone likes to throw a memorable party. Here are four reasons why you should include a whale in the festivities:
Decorating
There’s nothing worse than having to blow up balloons. Best case is that you end up with the unpalatable taste of latex in your mouth. Worst case is you become lightheaded and pass out, reviving some time later to find you missed the party completely. But have no fear - a single breath from a blue whale can inflate more than 160 dozen balloons.

Jump, Jive, and Whale
What’s a party without an impromptu visit from the local authorities? At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. That’s sure to make your party the envy of your friends (and the scorn of your neighbors).

Life of the Party
To be the life of the party, you need some unique talent. Maybe you can breathe fire. Maybe you juggle. Maybe you’re just reall y good at laughing. The fact is, everyone loves a good secret talent, and this is why you should invite a whale to your next party. Sometimes, whales will rise to the surface and blast a fountain of watery mist, called a "blow." Not only will this majestic fountain add to the ambiance of your event, but it will come in handy when your fire breathing routine accidentally sets the curtains ablaze.

There’s no Such Thing as Bad Karaoke
All whales speak - they moan, groan, squeak and sigh. It may not sound very pleasant to the ear, but neither does Karaoke, and that is inexplicably popular at parties. Nothing says highlight of the night quite like singing a duet of Loveshack by the B-52s with a whale.

Despite all the benefits, maybe having a whale at your next party is a bad idea. Whales probably aren't house trained, and even if they were, they would make an incredible mess of the back yard. Instead, why not add Whale Tails chips to the guest list? These playful and healthy snacks are sure to get the party started. With three varieties to choose from, there will be something for everyone. To learn more, contact us today!

Just Ask The Aztecs About The Benefits Of Chia Seeds

Just Ask The Aztecs About The Benefits Of Chia Seeds

Have you heard the stories about the "running people" of the Copper Canyons in Mexico?  It has been said that they are perhaps the finest long distance runners on earth.  The stories tell of 100 to 300 mile runs that the people do with ease.  You can just imagine the intense physical conditioning that must take place to be able to run like that!

The Tarahumara people of Mexico begin that conditioning at a very young age with the goal to be becoming runners for life, and along with a simple diet, the people have been known to live to 100 years old.  They also rarely suffer from disease and illnesses like we do in the western world.  Main staples of their diet were chia seeds and pinole.  Pinole was actually a type of roasted corn, often mixed with sugar, which is an excellent food for staving off hunger. Super concentrated and super nutritious, it is a food that will sustain you for weeks.

The mighty chia seed comes from a member of the mint family that thrives in the desert.  These seeds, along with the pinole are true "super foods" and chia offers twice the protein of any other seeds, like flax seeds for instance. They are also a rich source of antioxidants. 

Dr. Andrew Weil's website tells us that: 

"Chia is very rich in omega-3 fatty acids, even more so than flax seeds. And it has another advantage over flax: chia is so rich in antioxidants that the seeds don't deteriorate and can be stored for long periods without becoming rancid. And, unlike flax, they do not have to be ground to make their nutrients available to the body. Chia seeds also provide fiber (25 grams give you 6.9 grams of fiber) as well as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, molybdenum, niacin, and zinc."

The Aztec peoples of Mexico ate chia seeds as a staple of their diets as the plant was grown all over Mexico as far back as 1500 BC.  The chia seed helped maintain their powerful military and was known as the ultimate survival food.  They also used chia for medicine and it was included in religious ceremonies as an offering to the gods.  When the Spanish Conquistadors arrived they made note of the importance of this food in the people's diets and they promptly decided to do whatever they could to remove it from the people's lives.

Today, we know that the mighty chia is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet.  We also know that it can help us reduce our risk of heart disease and even help us avoid the onset of Type 2 Diabetes. Studies have shown that eating chia "improves major and emerging cardiovascular risk factors".

When we learned about all the health benefits of eating chia seeds, we just had to find a way to include them in our snacks.  Along came the Organic, Blue Corn Tor"chia" chip which has been infused with the mighty chia seed.

Contact us and we will let you know where you can grab a bag today!

That Rare Moment You've Had With Whales

You know that moment, when you get to the beach and sit down with a bag of Whale Tails Chips. Then you look far into the ocean, and it happens: You see a whale burst out of the water, and it floats mid-air for a second. It hits the water and the last thing you see is that tail. But right before that tail disappears you hold up a Whale Tails Chip in front of your one open eye, and it matches up perfectly with the monstrous tail in the distance. The chip resonates with a silver lining. Right when the tail disappears with a splash you crunch into that delicious organic sliver of natural ingestible love, and Dick Dale's "Misirlou" explodes through your earbuds from your mp3 player.......you know that moment? Yeah we don't either, but it sounds great doesn't it? We imagine right then as the song plays a cavalcade of your half-naked friends would come running/tumbling over the hill through t he hot sand heading straight for the water, until they spot you holding a bag of natural, kosher, organic, gluten free Whale Tails Chips. That's when they take a sharp ninety degree left directly towards you, and you become the bottom of the NFL fumble pile, people peeling off your friends one by one to see who's got the bag. They are just that tasty.
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Well, all your chips are gone but you still got that fine piece of Wyland art to pin to your Whale Tails Chips collage wall at home, right? Got a good story like this one? Tell us about it!

Keep the Fun in Back to School Healthy Snacks

Are your kids tired of the same old back to school healthy snacks? If your brood is begging for processed foods, techno-colored gelatin snack cups, and the other "cool" snacks that their friends have, it may be time to shake things up a bit. Luckily, you don't have to sacrifice your family's values or your children's health to do so. Instead, you can add a fun new snack to their lunchboxes.
Our unique tortilla chips have a fun whale's tail shape that'll encourage your kids to dive in again and again. Add them to your teen's lunch bag with a cup of salsa, serve them to your kids as nachos for an after school snack, or just keep them on hand for between meal munching.
Whale's tails are healthy, GMO free, and taste great. You'll love them because they're good for you, your kids will love them because of their unique shape and fun crunch. When you add whale tails chips to your snacking routine, you're making a healthy choice that everyone can get behind. Our chips have chia seed for an added Omega-3 boost, providing your children with the boost their developing brains need to get through their school day.
If you're tired of plain tortilla chips, opt for one of our fun flavors instead. We offer whale tails in three varieties -- blue corn, lightly salted original, and Hawaiian Barbeque. Kids and adults alike love them, so be sure to try all three!

If you'd like to learn more about these unique new chips, contact us today.