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Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g
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A light, crunchy cheese snack rather than a cheese board cracker: potato in the dough, sunflower oil, and a Red Leicester flavour.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · crackers.biz
Weight125g
GlutenContains gluten
MilkContains milk
VeganNot vegan
Label notes
Ingredients & dietaryContains gluten and contains milk. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Packaginga 125g pack. Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
About these crackers
Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, in brief.
Jacob's Bites Red Leicester are small snacking crackers made with wheat flour and dried potato, flavoured with a natural cheese flavouring. They are light and crunchy, built for eating by the handful.
The label gives a portion as 25g, so a 125g pack holds five portions, handy for lunchboxes and a quick snack. Fat is 20.8g per 100g but only 2g of it saturates, because the oil is sunflower.
Bites are a different kind of cracker from the cheese board classics. Dried potato goes into the wheat dough, which bakes into a lighter, crunchier snack, closer to a baked crisp than a biscuit. The flavour comes from natural flavourings made with milk and wheat, with a little glucose syrup and barley malt for colour.
The oil is sunflower, which is why the saturated fat is low: 2g per 100g. That makes Bites a lighter feeling snack than the rich Cheddars, even though the total fat is similar to many crackers.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the maker's published description. The pack in your hand is always the final word on ingredients and allergens.
From the catalogue
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Taste and texture
Expect a cheesy, savoury flavour with a gentle sweetness (9.2g of sugars per 100g) and a light, crunchy bite. Salt is 1.57g per 100g.
What is in it
Flour (wheat flour, calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), dried potato (contains sulphites), sunflower oil, starch, natural flavourings (contains milk, wheat), maltodextrin, wheat gluten, barley and barley malt extract, raising agents, glucose syrup, salt, sodium metabisulphite and wheat starch. The label declares wheat and barley (gluten), milk and sulphites.
Serving it
Eat them straight from the pack, pack a 25g portion into a lunchbox, or put a bowl out with drinks. They also make a crunchy side for soup or a salad.
Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
Brand
The story behind Jacob's
Jacob's began with W. and R. Jacob's steam biscuit factory in Dublin in 1853, and it was making cream crackers from around 1885: the plain, crisp, blistered square raised with yeast that is still the everyday cracker of British kitchens. In 1914 Jacob's opened its first English factory at Aintree, Liverpool, which Wikipedia records as the main UK producer of Jacob's products today. The range has grown far beyond the cream cracker. On our shelf you will find Cheddars and Mini Cheddars, the rich, flaky Cornish Wafers, Krackawheat with 31% ryemeal, Choice Grain, the potato based Bites, TUC, flatbreads, crispbreads and the Biscuits for Cheese selection box.
Packaging: a 125g pack. Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
Founded1853, Ireland (Dublin), now Aintree, Liverpool
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Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
Tasting notes
The taste profile
Crunch●●●●○ 4/5
Light and crunchy, like a baked snack. Salt●●●○○ 3/5
1.57g of salt per 100g on the label. Richness●●●○○ 3/5
20.8g of fat per 100g but only 2g saturates. Flavour●●●●○ 4/5
A clear cheese flavour with a little sweetness.
Side by side
How does it compare
vs Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar & Onion CrackersThe Mature Cheddar and caramelised onion Bites, saltier at 1.87g per 100g.
vs Jacob's Bites Sweet Chilli & Sour Cream Flavour CrackersThe sweet chilli and sour cream Bites.
Ways to serve Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, from the cheese board to the lunchbox.
From the recipe library
Made with these crackers
Lunchbox
One 25g portion in a tub with cherry tomatoes.
Drinks bowl
Straight into a bowl with other snacks.
Soup side
A handful next to tomato soup.
Cracker facts
From the pack
Pack weight125g
GlutenContains gluten
MilkContains milk
VeganNot vegan
Ingredients & nutrition
Inside the pack
| Energy | 2002 kJ |
| Energy | 476 kcal |
| Fat | 20.8 g |
| of which saturates | 2 g |
| Carbohydrate | 63.6 g |
| of which sugars | 9.2 g |
| Fibre | 2.8 g |
| Protein | 7.6 g |
| Salt | 1.6 g |
Ingredients
Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dried Potato (contains Sulphites), Sunflower Oil, Starch, Natural Flavourings (contains Milk, Wheat), Maltodextrin, Wheat Gluten, Barley and Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate), Glucose Syrup, Salt, Flour Treatment Agent (Sodium Metabisulphite), Wheat Starch.
Allergens and label claims
- Contains: gluten (cereals), milk and sulphites.
Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Nutrition per 100g
Pack and storage
- Pack: 125g of Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour.
- Storage: Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
Ingredient and nutrition data: Open Food Facts, openfoodfacts.org, ODbL.
Formulations change; the current UK pack is always the final word on ingredients and allergens.
Product questions
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The label gives a portion as 25g, so the 125g pack holds five.
Yes. The label lists dried potato containing sulphites and sodium metabisulphite. Check the allergy advice on your pack.
Yes. The label lists barley and wheat, so it is not suitable for anyone avoiding gluten. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Yes, milk is declared on the label. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
No. The label lists milk. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
The label declares gluten (cereals), milk and sulphites. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
476 kcal per 100g (2002 kJ), according to the published label data.
1.6g of salt per 100g, according to the published label data.
The pack holds 125g.
Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
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Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
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