Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers, 125g
Cheese and onion in a light, crunchy cracker: a lunchbox and drinks snack with low saturated fat thanks to sunflower oil.
Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers, in brief.
Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar and Caramelised Onion are small, crunchy snacking crackers made with wheat flour and dried potato, flavoured with a natural cheese and onion flavouring and coloured with paprika extract.
A portion on the label is 25g, so the 125g pack gives five. Like the other Bites, they use sunflower oil, so saturated fat is low at 2.1g per 100g.
Cheese and onion is the most British of flavours, and these Bites put it into a light, crunchy cracker. The dough mixes fortified wheat flour with dried potato and starch, which bakes into a snack with more crunch than a biscuit, and natural flavourings made with milk and wheat give the Cheddar and onion taste.
Paprika extract gives the golden colour. Salt is a little higher than the Red Leicester Bites at 1.87g per 100g, which suits the stronger cheese and onion profile.
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.
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Taste and texture
Expect a savoury cheese and onion flavour with a touch of sweetness (9g of sugars per 100g) and a light, crisp crunch. Fat is 20.6g per 100g, 2.1g of it saturates.
What is in it
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, wheat starch and paprika extract. The label declares wheat and barley (gluten), milk and sulphites.
Serving it
A snack for the lunchbox, the car and the sofa. Serve a bowl with a cold beer, or put them next to a ploughman's plate as the crunchy element.
Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
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.
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Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Ways to serve Jacob's Bites Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers, from the cheese board to the lunchbox.
Made with these crackers
With a beer
A bowl of Bites next to a cold lager or ale.
Ploughman's crunch
Beside Cheddar, pickle and ham.
Lunchbox
One 25g portion in a tub.
From the pack
Inside the pack
| Energy | 2002 kJ |
| Energy | 478 kcal |
| Fat | 20.6 g |
| of which saturates | 2.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 63.8 g |
| of which sugars | 9 g |
| Fibre | 2.8 g |
| Protein | 7.8 g |
| Salt | 1.9 g |
Ingredients
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, colour (paprika extract)
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 Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers.
- 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.
Asked about this tea
Both share the potato and wheat recipe; this one carries a cheese and onion flavouring, paprika extract for colour and more salt at 1.87g per 100g.
Yes. The natural flavourings contain milk. Check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
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.
478 kcal per 100g (2002 kJ), according to the published label data.
1.9g 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 Mature Cheddar & Onion Crackers, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
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