Campbell Foods Ghanaian Cassava, Yam, Plantain & Sweet Potato Chips, Pack of 3

Six root-vegetable chips, all of them sliced thin and fried in Ghana, sold as a pack of three sealed 90g bags (270g total). Pick a flavor at checkout: Cassava Hot & Spicy, Yam Hot & Spicy, Yam Original, Sweet Plantain, Sweet Potato Hot & Spicy, or Sweet Potato Original.

Cassava is the root Ghana grates and dries into garri, milled to a finer grain than the coarse Ijebu style favored across the border in Nigeria. It fries into the firmest chip of the six — dense enough to carry a heavy dip without snapping — and the Hot & Spicy bag lists chili as an actual ingredient beside the cassava, vegetable seasoning and salt, so the heat builds rather than coats.

Yam is a separate crop from sweet potato and important enough in Ghana to have a festival of its own: the Ashanti Yam Festival, kept by Akan communities and by the Bono and the Ewe, marks the new-yam harvest, and the first yams are offered to the ancestors before the wider community may eat them. Sliced thin, yam fries drier and lighter than potato or cassava, with a brittle snap and a mild floury sweetness. The Original bag is three ingredients — yams, salt, vegetable oil — and the Hot & Spicy adds chili and vegetable seasoning.

The plantain bag leans sweet, and the sweetness is the fruit's own rather than added sugar; it is plantain and salt, nothing else. It is a much simpler thing than kelewele, Ghana's spiced, cubed, deep-fried plantain, and is not sold as a version of it. The two sweet potato bags are three ingredients each — sweet potato, vegetable oil, salt — and fry darker and earthier than a white potato chip. One honest note on those: the pack printed Hot & Spicy lists no chili on its ingredient panel, so treat that name as how you tell the two sweet potato bags apart rather than as a heat rating.

Every flavor is vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and free of the major food allergens, with no added sugar, no artificial additives and no artificial preservatives. Three sealed bags rather than one oversized one means the bag you open is the bag you finish while the other two keep. Eat them straight, put them beside shito, a groundnut dip or hummus, pack them for lunch, or crumble them over stew, light soup or a salad.