McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack Crackers, 125g
Salt and vinegar tang on a baked cracker, low in saturated fat on the label data.
McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack Crackers, in brief.
McVitie's Penguin Salt and Vinegar Bites are small baked snack crackers with a salt and vinegar flavour, sold on the label as Salt and Vinegar Flavour Cracker Bites. A serving is 25g, five per pack.
The label data gives 456 kcal, 16g of fat (only 1.6g saturates) and 0.87g of salt per 100g.
Salt and vinegar is the sharpest of the classic snack flavours, and these Penguin Bites bring it to a baked cracker. They are made for snacking straight from the pack or from a bowl.
On the label data they are moderate in fat, 16g per 100g, and low in saturated fat at 1.6g, with only 1.2g of sugars.
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.
Curator’s notes
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Taste and texture
Expect a tangy salt and vinegar flavour and a crisp, baked crunch. Fibre is 4.8g per 100g on the label data.
What is in it
The ingredients and allergens are printed on the pack. Please read them before serving anyone with an allergy.
Serving it
A lunchbox and picnic snack, or a bowl with a cold drink.
Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack Crackers, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
The story behind McVitie's
The McVitie's name goes back to 1830, when Robert McVitie set up a bakery shop in Edinburgh; the business became McVitie and Price. Today McVitie's belongs to pladis, formed in 2016 when the Istanbul based Yildiz brought United Biscuits and other companies together. McVitie's is a sweet biscuit maker first, and it appears on our cracker shelf for one reason: Penguin Bites, which take the Penguin name into baked savoury snacking for the first time, in cheese, lightly salted and salt and vinegar flavours. They are small, crisp snack crackers for lunchboxes and bowls rather than the cheese board.
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.
Our commitment to the planet
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 McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack Crackers, from the cheese board to the lunchbox.
Made with these crackers
Picnic
A pack in the picnic bag.
Lunchbox
One 25g serving.
From the pack
Inside the pack
| Energy | 1902 kJ |
| Energy | 456 kcal |
| Fat | 16 g |
| of which saturates | 1.6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 66.4 g |
| of which sugars | 1.2 g |
| Fibre | 4.8 g |
| Protein | 8.4 g |
| Salt | 0.9 g |
Ingredients
The full ingredient list is printed on the pack. We publish a list only once we have the label for this exact pack in front of us, so we do not print one here.
Allergens
The allergen statement is printed on the pack. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Nutrition per 100g
Pack and storage
- Pack: 125g of McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack 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
Five servings of 25g.
On the pack you receive, with the allergy advice.
The allergen statement on the pack says whether it does. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
456 kcal per 100g (1902 kJ), according to the published label data.
0.9g 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 McVitie's Penguin Salt & Vinegar Flavour Bites Baked Snack Crackers, 125g, please cite crackers.biz.
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