Allergy Free Product of the Week – Bacon Crispies

These are Sainsbury’s own brand and I think they are a copy of the branded Frazzles crisps that I remember from childhood. They are bacon flavoured maize snacks so no good for anyone who can’t tolerate corn either. They are shaped like little bits of streaky bacon and just melt in your mouth.

Sainsbury’s Bacon crispies ingredients:
Maize; Rice Flour; Sunflower Oil; Bacon Flavour; Dried Potato; Beetroot Juice; Rice Flour, Maize, Sunflower Oil, Dried Potato, Yeast Powder, Salt, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Colours: Beetroot Red, Paprika Extract; Flavourings, Caster Sugar, Acid: Citric Acid.

So here we see a bacon crisp which hasn’t seen meat in its life. It even says suitable for vegetarians and vegans on the front of the packet; I’ve never understood why a vegetarian would want to eat bacon flavoured snacks? How is it vegan if it contains dairy?

Compared with the original Smiths Frazzles
Ingredients: Maize, Vegetable Oil, Bacon Flavour [{lactose from milk}, Flavour Enhancers {Monosodium Glutamate, disodium 5′-ribonucleotide}, Wheat Flour, Yeast Extract {from barley}, Rusk {from wheat}, Whey Powder {from milk}, Hydrolysed Soya Protein, Flavourings], Colours {Paprika Extract, Beetroot Red}, Salt, Potassium Chloride.

You can see here that Frazzles contain dairy and MSG.

I have to say I was amazed that I could eat these Sainsburys Bacon crispies. Much to the husbands’ dismay, who bought them for himself not knowing I would be able to eat them; my trying one crisp turned into scoffing three packets – well, they’re only tiny packets…

Usually I avoid all processed foods, but once in a while something like this is a real treat with a glass of beer in the evening in front of the TV.

Check out Free From Crisps for more dairy, wheat free crisp options.