Multi-American ®

If you’re on a low-carb diet, perhaps. I never thought I’d see chicharrones marketed as a diet-friendly, low-carb food, but indeed, fried hog skin turns out to be carbohydrate-free.

Health-related websites like My Fitness Pal, which lists the nutritional content of various brands of packaged chicharrones, and Livestrong both bear testament to the beloved Latin American snack as having zero carbohydrates per serving.

As for things like fat and sodium, well, that’s a different story. Dieters, eat chicharrones at your own risk.

But advertising works. After coming across this package of spicy chicharrones stamped with the zero-carb label at a gas station today, I bought it out of curiosity. It’s now half gone. Yikes.