These new keto diet tortillas are made of 100% cheese

Author: Kevin Dickinson / Source: Big Think

• To help keto dieters stay the course, Lotito Foods has developed the Folios cheese wrap, a tortilla made entirely of cheese.
• These cheese wraps can be part of a healthy diet, but only if eaten in extreme moderation and alongside low-fat, low-salt foods.
• Research shows that replacing grains and fiber with fat and salts in the long term can be dangerous.

Now they’ve gone and done it. Keto diet enthusiasts have concocted all manner of unsettling dishes to kick the carbs: coffee with butter instead of cream, cauliflower pizza crust, and “cheesecake bites” made from cream cheese rolled in sugar-free Jell-O dust.

Now they’ve come for that most saintly of all carb-loaded foods. The tortilla.

Lotito Foods, an Italian specialty foods manufacturer, has devised a tortilla made entirely of cheese. Called Folios, they contain no starch, wheat, flour, or additives and come in three flavors: Parmesan, Jarlsberg, and cheddar.

The cheese wraps are currently available in Northwest grocery stores, and they’ve garnered a lot of hype. They’ve been featured on the Today Showand in Women’s Health, and keto followers are starting to take notice on social media.

But is a tortilla made of cheese truly the healthier option? As with any dietary inquiry the answer is yes, no, but also maybe.

Keto vs. carbs

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Can Lotito Foods’ Folios cheese wrap stack up to the comfortable goodness of a traditional tortilla. For ketogenic dieters, the answer is obvious.

To find out, we’ll need to compare the nutritional information of Folios cheese wrap to a traditional tortilla. We’ll stack the Folios’ cheddar flavor against an organic Mission whole wheat tortilla—for the incredibly scientific reason of that’s what I had in the fridge.

A Folios cheddar wrap has a serving size of one tortilla (42g) that nets you 180 calories. The tortilla’s serving size is also one tortilla (49g) with 150 calories. Neither are very high in sugar (0 vs. 2g) or iron (0 vs. 6 percent), and both contain roughly one-sixth of your daily recommended sodium.

Where the two differ, no surprise, is carbs and fat content.

The cheddar wraps contain 13 grams of total fat, eight of which are saturated fat. That means one wrap is worth 20 percent of your daily recommended fat and 40 percent of your saturated fat (per a 2,000-calorie diet). It also has 45 milligrams of cholesterol. On the more salutary side, the wraps contain a whopping 11 grams of protein and no carbs.

The tortilla has far more carbs, but at 24 grams, it’s only one-tenth your daily total. It also has far less fat (5g), no cholesterol or saturated fat, and some fiber and potassium (7 and 2 percent respectively).

It’s worth noting that Folios cheese wraps’ ingredients are pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, and annatto coloring. That’s it. There’s something incredibly pleasing about an ingredients list so simple.

It’s not easy going cheesy

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— Cheese Folios (@CheeseFolios)

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For the average, non-keto consumer, Folios cheese wraps can be a healthy dietary choice, as are most cheeses. As we’ve seen, cheeses provide a delicious source of protein, and…

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