Nutritious fabricated snack products

A fried snack chip consisting essentially of:

• a) from about 15% to about 60% of raw, chopped carrots;
• b) from about 40% to about 65% of tapioca starch material, wherein at least about 40% of the starch material is pre-gelatinized;
• c) from about 0.1% to about 3.0% water;
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• d) from about 1% to about 20% of optional ingredients selected from the group consisting of natural or artificial flavors, oatmeal, fruits, nuts, flavor enhancers, fats and oils, natural sweeteners, artificial sweeteners, emulsifiers, non-digestible fats or oils, vitamin or minerals and mixtures thereof;
• and wherein the snack chip further consists of 5% to about 60%, by weight of the snack chip, vegetable material derived from raw vegetable materials selected from the group consisting of broccoli, cauliflower, celery, peppers, tomatoes, pumpkin, squash and mixtures thereof and wherein the chip is free from corn flour or potato flour that mask the flavor of the carrots.