Santitas White Corn Restaurant Style Chips

*Est. $3 for 16 ounces

Best tortilla chips for dipping

Sturdy enough to hold up to wet salsas
Perfectly salted
Full of corn flavor
Crunchy
Light-textured

Sometimes hard to find in stores
Not as sturdy for nachos

Our Analysis

We located reviews of Santitas White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips in Real Simple, Cook's Country, Eating Well, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Hartford Courant. Of these, Real Simple's review is the largest, but editors are hard on chips, downgrading them for breaking on contact with bean dip. We wish they had recommended chips for eating out of hand, as well as chips for various recipes, including nachos.

According to taste tests, Santitas White Corn Restaurant Style are the best tortilla chips for dipping. These chips are said to be fine-textured and delicious, with a good amount of corn flavor and just enough salt. They have a light, flaky texture, which means that while they stand up well to salsa, they might not be sturdy enough as a base for nachos. If you are looking for a wider, more substantial chip for a nacho platter, reviews point to Tostitos Natural Yellow Corn Tortilla Chips (*est. $3 for 9.5 ounces). These chips are said to be thicker and more substantial than Santitas chips.

Our Sources

1. Real Simple Details/Subscribe

Real Simple's panel tasted 14 tortilla chips brands. Editors like the flavor of Santitas White Corn Triangles, but they failed the bean-dip challenge, breaking under the dip's weight.

Review: Which Chips are Worth Their Weight in Salsa?, Melissa Clark, June/July 2004

2. Cook's CountryDetails/Subscribe

In general, critics participating in this taste test of nine brands prefer "light and crispy," fine-textured tortilla chips over coarser chips made from stone-ground corn. Santitas White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips are among those included and rated in the test.

Review: Tortilla Chips, Editors of Cook's Country, June 1, 2006

3. EatingWell.com

Six brands of tortilla chips (some baked, some fried) are included in this roundup. Santitas White Corn Restaurant Style Tortilla Chips were the runners-up. "We buy these chips regularly and like the salt level and crunchiness," editors write.

Review: Baked Tortilla Chips, Editors of Eating Well

4. San Francisco Chronicle

Tasters at the San Francisco Chronicle sample 12 brands of tortilla chips and unanimously choose Santitas Triangles as the winner. The taste-testers like their "nice snap" and "very corny" flavor.

Review: Light and Salty Wins the Corn Chip Taste Test, Carol Ness, July 9, 2003

5. The Hartford Courant

Twelve tortilla chip brands go head-to-head in this tasting. Santitas were well liked, if a bit "greasy." The review also tests a number of different salsas.

Review: The Salsa Bowl, Editors of the Hartford Courant, Jan. 31, 2008

6. Taquitos.net

Editors at this snack-food blog have posted reviews of more than 280 tortilla chip varieties, including some that are truly bizarre. "Santitas are large, strong tortilla chips with a good corn taste and a moderate amount of salt," editors conclude. "They're really quite tasty."

Review: Santitas White Corn Triangles Tortilla Chips, Editors of Taquitos.net